Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 16
Alice guessed she was near the centre of the earth, "four thousand miles down", and said "Latitude" and "Longitude" without knowing what they meant, because they were "nice grand words to say".
Who acts: Alice, Latitude · What happens: guess, be, say, know, mean · To what, where: centre, Latitude, nice grand words · 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, Latitude), 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 guessed | nsubj |
| 2 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 centre | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 centre | cop |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 centre | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 centre | det |
| 7 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 guessed | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 centre | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 earth | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 down | punct |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 thousand | nummod |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 miles | nummod |
| 15 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 down | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 centre | advmod |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 down | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 guessed | conj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Latitude | punct |
| 22 | Latitude | latitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Latitude | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Longitude | cc |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Longitude | punct |
| 26 | Longitude | longitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Latitude | conj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Longitude | punct |
| 28 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 29 knowing | mark |
| 29 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 said | advcl |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 meant | obj |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 meant | nsubj |
| 32 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 knowing | ccomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 words | punct |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 40 words | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 words | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 words | cop |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 words | punct |
| 38 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 words | amod |
| 39 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 words | amod |
| 40 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 knowing | advcl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 say | mark |
| 42 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 words | acl |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 words | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | Alice | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Alice | the centre | of the earth; down property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Alice not said here | Latitude and Longitude | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent latitude=Topic | ||||
| 4 | know | gerund | Alice not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | mean | past | Latitude | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | past | Latitude | nice grand words | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:16.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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