Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 4

Nibbling first one bit and then the other, Alice gets back to her normal height, then makes herself nine inches tall so as not to scare whoever lives in a tiny house nearby: half of her plan is done.

Who acts: Alice, whoever, half · What happens: nibble, get back, make, not scare, live, be · To what, where: one bit, Alice, tiny house

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, whoever, half), 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	11 gets	advcl
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 one	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 bit	nummod
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nibbling	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 other	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 other	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 other	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bit	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nibbling	punct
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gets	nsubj
11	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 gets	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	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 height	amod
16	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 back	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 makes	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 makes	advmod
19	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gets	conj
20	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 makes	obj
21	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 inches	nummod
22	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tall	obl:unmarked
23	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 makes	xcomp
24	so	so	SCONJ	_	28 scare	mark
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 scare	mark
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 scare	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 scare	mark
28	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 makes	advcl
29	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 lives	nsubj
30	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 scare	ccomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 house	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 house	det
33	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 house	amod
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lives	obl
35	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	34 house	advmod
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 half	punct
37	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	42 done	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 plan	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 plan	nmod:poss
40	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 half	nmod
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 done	cop
42	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 gets	parataxis
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gets	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nibble	gerund	Alice not said here	one bit				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get back	present	Alice					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	present	Alice not said here	Alice		then	tall property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product
4	not scare	to-infinitive	Alice not said here					tree rules
5	live	present	whoever		a tiny house			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
6	is	present	half of Alice's plan				do property	tree rules
7	plan		Alice					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:4.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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