Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 8
Squashed chin-to-foot, she just manages to swallow a morsel (a small bite) of the left-hand bit.
Who acts: chin · What happens: squash, manage, swallow · To what, where: chin, morsel
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 (chin), 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 | Squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Squashed | obj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 foot | punct |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 foot | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 to | punct |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chin | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 manages | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 manages | nsubj |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 manages | advmod |
| 10 | manages | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Squashed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 swallow | mark |
| 12 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 manages | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 morsel | det |
| 14 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swallow | obj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 bite | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bite | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bite | amod |
| 18 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 morsel | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 bite | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bit | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bit | det |
| 22 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hand | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bit | compound |
| 25 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 morsel | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 manages | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | participle | chin and foot | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chin=Patient | |||||
| 2 | manage | present | chin | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | swallow | to-infinitive | chin not said here | a morsel of the hand bit | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=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:8.
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, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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