Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 15

She joked that after such a fall she would think nothing of tumbling downstairs, and would not say anything about it "even if I fell off the top of the house" (which was true, because such a fall would hurt her badly).

Who acts: Alice, top, fall · What happens: joke, think, tumble, not say, fell off, be · To what, where: nothing, anything, top, Alice · 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 (Alice, top, fall), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 joked	nsubj
2	joked	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 think	mark
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 fall	case
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 fall	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fall	det
7	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 think	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 think	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 think	aux
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 joked	ccomp
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 think	obj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 tumbling	mark
13	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 nothing	acl
14	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	13 tumbling	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 say	cc
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 say	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 say	advmod
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 think	conj
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 say	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 anything	nmod
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
24	even	even	ADV	_	27 fell	advmod
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 fell	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 say	advcl
28	off	off	ADP	_	30 top	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 top	det
30	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 top	nmod
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 top	punct
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	38 true	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 true	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 true	cop
38	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 top	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 hurt	punct
40	because	because	SCONJ	_	45 hurt	mark
41	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	43 fall	det:predet
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 fall	det
43	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hurt	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 hurt	aux
45	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 true	advcl
46	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 hurt	obj
47	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 hurt	advmod
48	)	)	PUNCT	_	38 true	punct
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 joked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	past	Alice				tree rules
2	think speech: other	would	Alice	nothing	after such fall		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
3	tumble	gerund				downstairs property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not say speech: assert	would	Alice not said here	anything		about fall	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
5	fell off a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	Alice	the top of the house			tree rules
6	is	past	the top of the house			true property	tree rules
7	hurt	would	such fall	Alice		badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient

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:15.

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): no change. 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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