Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 0
Nine-inch Alice watches a footman with a face like a fish hand a giant letter to a footman with a face like a frog: the Queen invites the Duchess to play croquet.
Who acts: inch Alice, footman, Queen, Duchess · What happens: watch, hand, invite, play · To what, where: footman, giant letter, Duchess, croquet
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» 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 (inch Alice, footman, Queen, Duchess), 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 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 inch | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 inch | punct |
| 3 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Alice | compound |
| 4 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 watches | nsubj |
| 5 | watches | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 footman | det |
| 7 | footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watches | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 face | det |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 footman | nmod |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 fish | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fish | det |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | nmod |
| 14 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 footman | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 letter | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 letter | amod |
| 17 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hand | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 footman | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 footman | det |
| 20 | footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hand | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 face | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 face | det |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 footman | nmod |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 frog | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 frog | det |
| 26 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 face | nmod |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 watches | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Queen | det |
| 29 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 invites | nsubj |
| 30 | invites | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 watches | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Duchess | det |
| 32 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 invites | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 play | mark |
| 34 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 invites | xcomp |
| 35 | croquet | croquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 play | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watches | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present | inch Alice | a footman | with a face like a fish | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footman=Theme | |||
| 2 | hand | infinitive | a footman not said here | a giant letter | a footman with a face like a frog | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to footman=Destination | |||
| 3 | invite | present | the Queen | the Duchess | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent duchess=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Duchess not said here | croquet | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croquet=Theme |
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:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:0.
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, 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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