Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 13
It had taken "the highest tree in the wood", and now a serpent seemed to come "wriggling down from the sky".
Who acts: It, serpent · What happens: take, seem, come, wriggle down · To what, where: highest tree, wood, sky
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» 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 (It, serpent), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tree | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 6 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 tree | amod |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | nmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tree | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seemed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seemed | cc |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | _ | 17 seemed | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 serpent | det |
| 16 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seemed | nsubj |
| 17 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 seemed | xcomp |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 wriggling | punct |
| 21 | wriggling | wriggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 come | advcl |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 wriggling | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 sky | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sky | det |
| 25 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wriggling | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 wriggling | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | It | the highest tree | the wood | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Value in wood=Location | |||
| 2 | seem | past | a serpent | now | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | a serpent not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wriggle down in a quote | gerund | a serpent not said here | the sky | down property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: 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:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:13.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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