Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 1
When they bow, their curly wigs get tangled, and Alice has to run off to hide her laughter.
Who acts: they, Alice · What happens: bow, tangle, have, run off, hide · To what, where: curly wigs, laughter
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 (they, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 bow | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bow | nsubj |
| 3 | bow | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tangled | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bow | punct |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wigs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wigs | amod |
| 7 | wigs | wig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tangled | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tangled | aux:pass |
| 9 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 has | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 has | cc |
| 12 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tangled | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 run | mark |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 has | xcomp |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 run | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hide | mark |
| 18 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 run | advcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 laughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hide | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tangled | 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 | bow | present | they | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tangle | present · passive | their curly wigs | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | run off | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hide | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | Alice's laughter | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laughter=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:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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