Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 3

The hole turns into a very deep well, and she falls so slowly that she can look at shelves and cupboards, grab a jar, chatter about the centre of the Earth and the people on the other side of the world, and nearly fall asleep thinking about her cat Dinah.

Who acts: hole · What happens: turn, fall, look, grab, chatter, think · To what, where: deep well, jar

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 (hole), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hole	det
2	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 well	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 well	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 deep	advmod
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 well	amod
8	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 falls	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 falls	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 falls	nsubj
12	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turns	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 slowly	advmod
14	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 falls	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 look	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 look	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 look	aux
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 falls	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 shelves	case
20	shelves	shelf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 look	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cupboards	cc
22	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shelves	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grab	punct
24	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 look	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 jar	det
26	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grab	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 chatter	punct
28	chatter	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 look	conj
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 centre	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 centre	det
31	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chatter	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Earth	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Earth	det
34	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 centre	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 people	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 people	det
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 centre	conj
38	on	on	ADP	_	41 side	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 side	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 side	amod
41	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 people	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 world	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 world	det
44	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 side	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 fall	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 fall	cc
47	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	48 fall	advmod
48	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turns	conj
49	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 fall	xcomp
50	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 fall	advcl
51	about	about	ADP	_	53 cat	case
52	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 cat	nmod:poss
53	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 thinking	obl
54	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 cat	appos
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turns	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the hole		a deep well		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into well=Trajectory
2	fall	present	hole			slowly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	can	hole			at shelves and cupboards	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shelf=Theme
4	grab	infinitive	hole not said here	a jar			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme
5	chatter	infinitive	hole not said here			about the centre of the Earth and the people on the other side of the world	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about centre=Topic
6	fall	infinitive	the hole not said here			asleep, nearly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	think speech: other	gerund	the hole not said here			about hole's cat	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic

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:3.

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 ×3. 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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