Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 10
Only later "it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this"; at the time a talking rabbit seemed quite natural.
Who acts: waistcoat, talking rabbit · What happens: occur, wonder, seem · To what, where: Rabbit, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waistcoat, talking rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 later | advmod |
| 2 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 occurred | advmod |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 occurred | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 occurred | nsubj |
| 5 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 occurred | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 ought | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ought | nsubj |
| 10 | ought | ought | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wondered | aux |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 wondered | mark |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wondered | aux |
| 13 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 occurred | ccomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 wondered | obl |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 occurred | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 seemed | punct |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seemed | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 rabbit | det |
| 22 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rabbit | compound |
| 23 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seemed | nsubj |
| 24 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 occurred | parataxis |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 26 natural | advmod |
| 26 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 seemed | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur in a quote | past | waistcoat | Rabbit | late property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | ought · perfect | waistcoat not said here | this | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | a talking rabbit | time | natural property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:10.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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