Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 17

She wondered if she would fall right through the earth and come out among people walking upside down and called them "the Antipathies"; she meant the Antipodes, the people on the opposite side of the world, while an antipathy is a strong dislike.

Who acts: Alice, people, antipathy · What happens: wonder, fall, come out, walk, call, mean · To what, where: earth, upside, people, Antipodes, strong dislike · 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, people, antipathy), 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 wondered	nsubj
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 fall	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fall	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	aux
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wondered	ccomp
7	right	right	ADV	_	6 fall	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earth	det
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fall	conj
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	among	among	ADP	_	15 people	case
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	obl
16	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 people	acl
17	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walking	obj
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 upside	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 called	cc
20	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wondered	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 called	obj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Antipathies	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Antipathies	det
24	Antipathies	antipathy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 called	xcomp
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Antipathies	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 meant	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 meant	nsubj
28	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wondered	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Antipodes	det
30	Antipodes	antipode	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 meant	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 meant	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 people	det
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 Antipodes	appos
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 side	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 side	det
36	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 side	amod
37	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 people	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 side	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 dislike	punct
42	while	while	SCONJ	_	48 dislike	mark
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 antipathy	det
44	antipathy	antipathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 dislike	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 dislike	cop
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 dislike	det
47	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 dislike	amod
48	dislike	dislike	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 meant	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	Alice				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fall a condition, not said to happen	would	Alice		the earth	right property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through earth=Location
3	come out	infinitive	Alice not said here			among people; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	walk	gerund	people not said here	upside			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme upside=Trajectory
5	call	past	Alice not said here	people			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	mean	past	Alice	the Antipodes			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antipode=Topic
7	is a	present	a antipathy	a strong dislike			tree rules

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.

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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 ×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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