Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 14
Alice took a jar labelled "ORANGE MARMALADE" from a shelf; it was empty, and she put it into a cupboard because she did not want to kill somebody underneath by dropping it.
Who acts: Alice, jar · What happens: take, label, be, put, not want, kill · To what, where: jar, shelf, ORANGE MARMALADE, cupboard, somebody
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 (Alice, jar), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jar | det |
| 4 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | labelled | label | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 jar | acl |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 MARMALADE | punct |
| 7 | ORANGE | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 MARMALADE | amod |
| 8 | MARMALADE | marmalade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 labelled | xcomp |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 MARMALADE | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 shelf | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shelf | det |
| 12 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 empty | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 empty | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 empty | cop |
| 16 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 took | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 cupboard | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cupboard | det |
| 24 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 29 want | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 want | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 want | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 want | advmod |
| 29 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 put | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 kill | mark |
| 31 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 want | xcomp |
| 32 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 kill | obj |
| 33 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 31 kill | advmod |
| 34 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 35 dropping | mark |
| 35 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 kill | advcl |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 dropping | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Alice | a jar | a shelf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent jar=Theme from shelf=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | label | participle | a jar not said here | ORANGE MARMALADE | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | jar | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | past | Alice | jar | a cupboard | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 5 | not want | past · do-support | Alice | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | somebody | underneath property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Theme | |||
| 7 | drop | gerund | Alice not said here | jar | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:14.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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