Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 20
She finds a little house "about four feet high", and, so as not to "frighten them out of their wits", she nibbles the right-hand bit until she is nine inches high.
Who acts: Pigeon · What happens: find, not frighten, nibble, be · To what, where: little house, eggs, wits, hand bit
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 finds | nsubj |
| 2 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 finds | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 high | punct |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 four | advmod |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 feet | nummod |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 high | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 high | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 frighten | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 frighten | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 frighten | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 frighten | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 not | case |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 frighten | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 frighten | mark |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 frighten | punct |
| 20 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 nibbles | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 frighten | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 wits | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wits | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wits | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 frighten | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 frighten | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 nibbles | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 nibbles | nsubj |
| 29 | nibbles | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 finds | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bit | det |
| 31 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hand | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 right | punct |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bit | compound |
| 34 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 nibbles | obj |
| 35 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 40 high | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 high | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 high | cop |
| 38 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 inches | nummod |
| 39 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 high | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 nibbles | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Pigeon | a little house | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not frighten in a quote | to-infinitive | Pigeon not said here | eggs = egg | eggs's wits | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | nibble | present | Pigeon | the hand bit | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Pigeon | nine inches obl:unmarked; high property | tree rules |
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:20.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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