Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 5

Alice thinks: "and what is the use of a book," "without pictures or conversations?"; "conversations" here means characters talking to each other.

Who acts: Alice, conversations, characters · What happens: think, be, mean, talk · To what, where: use, characters · 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, conversations, characters), 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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 use	cc
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 use	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 use	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 use	det
9	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 book	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 book	det
12	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 pictures	punct
16	without	without	ADP	_	17 pictures	case
17	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 use	nmod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 conversations	cc
19	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pictures	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 means	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 conversations	punct
24	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 means	nsubj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 conversations	punct
26	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 conversations	advmod
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
28	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 means	obj
29	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 characters	acl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 each	case
31	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	29 talking	obl
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 each	fixed
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Alice			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present		the use	of a book; without pictures or conversations	tree rules
3	mean	present	conversations	characters		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Topic
4	talk	gerund	characters not said here		to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-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:5.

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 ×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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