Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 20

Sleepy, Alice kept asking "Do cats eat bats?" and sometimes "Do bats eat cats?", because she could not answer either question, so the order did not matter; then she began to doze and dreamed she was walking hand in hand with Dinah.

Who acts: Alice, cats, bats, order · What happens: keep, ask, eat, not answer, not matter, begin · To what, where: bats, cats, question, hand · 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, cats, bats, order), 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	Sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sleepy	punct
3	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
7	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	nsubj
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asking	ccomp
10	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Do	cc
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 eat	advmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Do	punct
16	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	aux
17	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	nsubj
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eat	conj
19	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 answer	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 answer	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 answer	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 answer	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 answer	advmod
27	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	advcl
28	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	29 question	det
29	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 answer	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 matter	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	36 matter	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 order	det
33	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 matter	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 matter	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 matter	advmod
36	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 answer	parataxis
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 began	punct
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 began	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 began	nsubj
40	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 matter	parataxis
41	to	to	PART	_	42 doze	mark
42	doze	doze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 began	xcomp
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 dreamed	cc
44	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 began	conj
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 walking	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 walking	aux
47	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 dreamed	ccomp
48	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 walking	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 hand	case
50	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 walking	obl
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 Dinah	case
52	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 walking	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Alice					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	Alice not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat in a quote	present · do-support	cats	bats				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Patient
4	eat in a quote	present · do-support	bats	cats			sometimes property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
5	not answer speech: assert	could	Alice	either question				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
6	not matter	past · do-support	the order					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
7	begin	past	Alice			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	doze	to-infinitive	Alice not said here					vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	dream	past	Alice not said here					vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	walk	past · progressive	Alice	hand	hand		with Dinah	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in hand=Trajectory

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:20.

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. 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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