Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 12
When they both bow low, "their curls got entangled together", and Alice laughs so much she runs back into the wood.
Who acts: words, Alice · What happens: bow, entangle, laugh, run back · To what, where: curls, wood
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 (words, 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 bow | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bow | nsubj |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 bow | det |
| 4 | bow | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 entangled | advcl |
| 5 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 bow | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bow | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 entangled | punct |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 curls | nmod:poss |
| 9 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 entangled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 entangled | aux:pass |
| 11 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 entangled | advmod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 entangled | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laughs | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laughs | cc |
| 16 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 laughs | nsubj |
| 17 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 entangled | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 17 laughs | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 runs | nsubj |
| 21 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 laughs | advcl |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 runs | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 runs | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 entangled | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | present | words = word | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | entangle in a quote | past · passive | words's curls | together property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | laugh | present | Alice | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | run back | present | Alice | into the wood result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |
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:12.
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. 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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