Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 5

Alice looks at the mushroom and, "as it was perfectly round", finds it hard to work out which are its two sides.

Who acts: Alice, half · What happens: look, be, find, work out · To what, where: two sides · 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, 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 mushroom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mushroom	det
5	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 finds	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 and	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 round	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 round	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 round	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 round	cop
12	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	13 round	advmod
13	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 finds	advcl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 round	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 round	punct
16	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 looks	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hard	expl
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 finds	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 work	mark
20	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hard	ccomp
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 work	compound:prt
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 sides	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sides	cop
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sides	nmod:poss
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 sides	nummod
26	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 work	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	Alice		at the mushroom	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mushroom=Theme
2	is in a quote	past	half		perfectly, round property	tree rules
3	find	present	Alice not said here		hard property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	work out	to-infinitive				vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present		half's two sides		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:5.

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 ×1, 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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