Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 9
Her head is free but her shoulders are "nowhere to be found"; she sees "an immense length of neck" rising "like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves", which are really the tops of the trees.
Who acts: head, chin, immense length, sea · What happens: be, find, see, rise · To what, where: shoulders, immense length, sea, tops
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 (head, chin, immense length, sea), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 free | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 free | cop |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 found | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 nowhere | punct |
| 10 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 found | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 found | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 free | advcl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sees | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sees | nsubj |
| 17 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 free | parataxis |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 length | punct |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 length | det |
| 20 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 length | amod |
| 21 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sees | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 neck | case |
| 23 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 length | nmod |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 length | punct |
| 25 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 length | acl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 rising | punct |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 stalk | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 stalk | det |
| 29 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rising | obl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 sea | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 sea | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 sea | det |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 length | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 leaves | case |
| 35 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 leaves | amod |
| 36 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 sea | nmod |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 sea | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 tops | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 tops | nsubj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 tops | cop |
| 41 | really | really | ADV | _ | 43 tops | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 tops | det |
| 43 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 sea | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 trees | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 trees | det |
| 46 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 tops | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | chin's head | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present · passive | chin's shoulders | nowhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | present | chin | a immense length of neck | a sea of green leaves and the tops | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer length=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | rise | gerund | a immense length of neck not said here | like a stalk | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | a sea of green leaves and the tops | the tops | of the trees | 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:9.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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