Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 7

Nibbling the right-hand bit, she feels "a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!", because she is shrinking so fast.

Who acts: Alice, bit · What happens: nibble, feel, strike, shrink · To what, where: hand bit, violent blow, chin, foot

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, bit), 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	9 feels	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bit	det
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hand	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	compound
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nibbling	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nibbling	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feels	nsubj
9	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 blow	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 blow	det
12	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blow	amod
13	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feels	obj
14	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	16 chin	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 chin	nmod:poss
16	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blow	nmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 struck	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 struck	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 struck	aux
20	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 blow	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 foot	nmod:poss
22	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 blow	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 blow	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shrinking	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 shrinking	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shrinking	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 shrinking	aux
29	shrinking	shrink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 feels	advcl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 fast	advmod
31	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 shrinking	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 feels	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	nibble	gerund	Alice not said here	the hand bit			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
2	feel	present	Alice	a violent blow	Alice's chin		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent blow=Theme underneath chin=Location
3	strike in a quote	past · perfect	bit	Alice's foot			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
4	shrink	present · progressive	Alice			fast property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:7.

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 ×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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