Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 19

Dinah is Alice's cat; Alice hoped someone would remember Dinah's saucer of milk at tea-time, and said there were no mice in the air, but Dinah might catch a bat, which is "very like a mouse".

Who acts: Dinah, Alice, someone, mice, bat · What happens: be, hope, remember, say, catch · To what, where: cat, saucer, bat · 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 (Dinah, Alice, someone, mice), 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	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cat	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cat	cop
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Alice	case
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 hoped	punct
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hoped	nsubj
8	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cat	parataxis
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 remember	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 remember	aux
11	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hoped	ccomp
12	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 saucer	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Dinah	case
14	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remember	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 milk	case
16	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saucer	nmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 time	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 tea	punct
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remember	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hoped	conj
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 were	expl
25	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 mice	det
27	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 were	nsubj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 air	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 air	det
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mice	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 catch	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 catch	cc
33	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 catch	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 catch	aux
35	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cat	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bat	det
37	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 catch	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 mouse	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 like	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 like	cop
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 like	punct
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 like	advmod
43	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bat	acl:relcl
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 mouse	det
45	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 like	obl
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 mouse	punct
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dinah	Alice's cat				tree rules
2	hope	past	Alice					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	remember	would	someone	Dinah's saucer of milk		time		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent saucer=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Alice not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	be	past	no mice in the air		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	catch	might	Dinah	a bat				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Theme
7	is in a quote	present	a bat				a mouse obl; like property	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.

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:19.

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 ×1, 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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