Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 19

Nibbling one bit and then the other, she gets "down to her usual height", and says "there's half my plan done now!"

Who acts: Pigeon, plan, my · What happens: nibble, get, say, be, do, plan · To what, where: one bit · 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 (Pigeon, plan, my), 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	Nibbling	nibble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 gets	advcl
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bit	nummod
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nibbling	obl:unmarked
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 other	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 other	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nibbling	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gets	nsubj
10	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 down	punct
12	down	down	ADV	_	16 height	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 height	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 height	nmod:poss
15	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 height	amod
16	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gets	obl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 height	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 says	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 says	cc
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 gets	conj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 's	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 's	expl
23	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 says	ccomp
24	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	26 plan	det:predet
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 plan	nmod:poss
26	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 's	nsubj
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 's	advcl
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 done	advmod
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 gets	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 gets	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nibble	gerund	Pigeon not said here	one bit				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	Pigeon				to Pigeon's usual height result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to height=Result
3	say speech: express	present	Pigeon not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be in a quote	present	my plan		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do in a quote	participle	my plan not said here			now		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	plan in a quote		my					nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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:19.

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 ×1, R6-punct-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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