Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 6
She breaks off a bit of the edge with each hand and asks "And now which is which?"
Who acts: Alice · What happens: break off, ask, be · To what, where: 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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 breaks | nsubj |
| 2 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 breaks | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breaks | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 edge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edge | det |
| 8 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breaks | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asks | cc |
| 13 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 breaks | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 breaks | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 which | cc |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | _ | 19 which | advmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 which | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 which | cop |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 asks | ccomp |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 breaks | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | present | Alice | a bit of the edge | with each hand | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bit=Patient with hand=Instrument | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | Alice not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | now | 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:6.
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. 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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