Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 14
Alice says "I—I'm a little girl", "rather doubtfully", because she has changed so many times that day.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: say, be, change · To what, where: little girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Alice), 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 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 girl | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 girl | nsubj |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 I | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 girl | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 girl | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 girl | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 doubtfully | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 doubtfully | punct |
| 14 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 15 doubtfully | advmod |
| 15 | doubtfully | doubtfully | ADV | _ | 2 says | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 doubtfully | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 changed | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 changed | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 changed | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 changed | aux |
| 21 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 says | advcl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 many | advmod |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 times | amod |
| 24 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 changed | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | that | that | DET | PronType=Dem | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Alice | a little girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | present · perfect | Alice | time | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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:14.
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 ×2, 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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