Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 9
Alice did not find a talking rabbit strange at the time; what made her start to her feet was the Rabbit taking "a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket"; a waistcoat is a sleeveless jacket worn over a shirt.
Who acts: Alice, Rabbit taking, waistcoat · What happens: not find, make, start, be, wear · To what, where: talking rabbit, Rabbit taking, sleeveless jacket, shirt
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, Rabbit taking, waistcoat), 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 | 4 find | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 find | advmod |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rabbit | det |
| 6 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rabbit | compound |
| 7 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 find | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strange | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 taking | csubj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 start | nmod:poss |
| 16 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 feet | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 start | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 taking | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Rabbit | det |
| 22 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taking | compound |
| 23 | taking | taking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | parataxis |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 watch | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 watch | det |
| 26 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taking | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 pocket | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 pocket | case |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 30 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pocket | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 waistcoat | punct |
| 32 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 watch | nmod | ||
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 pocket | punct |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 jacket | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 waistcoat | det |
| 36 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 jacket | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 jacket | cop |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 jacket | det |
| 39 | sleeveless | sleeveless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 jacket | amod |
| 40 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | parataxis |
| 41 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 jacket | acl |
| 42 | over | over | ADP | _ | 44 shirt | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 shirt | det |
| 44 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 worn | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | past · do-support | Alice | a talking rabbit | strange property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | past | Rabbit taking | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | start | infinitive | Rabbit taking not said here | to Rabbit's feet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Rabbit taking | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | a waistcoat | a sleeveless jacket | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wear | participle | a sleeveless jacket not said here | a shirt | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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:9.
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 ×2, 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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