Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 13
When Alice comes back, the Frog-Footman is sitting on the ground near the door, "staring stupidly up into the sky"; from inside comes "a constant howling and sneezing", and now and then a great crash.
Who acts: Alice, Frog Footman · What happens: come back, sit, stare, come · To what, where: ground, constant howling
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 (Alice, Frog Footman), 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 | _ | 3 comes | mark |
| 2 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sitting | advcl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 comes | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Footman | det |
| 7 | Frog | frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Footman | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Frog | punct |
| 9 | Footman | footman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sitting | aux |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ground | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sitting | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 staring | punct |
| 20 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sitting | advcl |
| 21 | stupidly | stupidly | ADV | _ | 20 staring | advmod |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 staring | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 sky | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sky | det |
| 25 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 up | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 staring | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 comes | punct |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 inside | case |
| 29 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 30 comes | obl |
| 30 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sitting | parataxis |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 howling | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 howling | det |
| 33 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 howling | amod |
| 34 | howling | howling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 comes | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sneezing | cc |
| 36 | sneezing | sneezing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 howling | conj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 howling | punct |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 crash | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 crash | cc |
| 40 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 crash | advmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 crash | cc |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 crash | advmod |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 crash | det |
| 44 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 crash | amod |
| 45 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 howling | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present | Alice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit | present · progressive | the Frog Footman | the ground near the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | ||||
| 3 | stare in a quote | gerund | the Frog Footman not said here | stupidly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | present | a constant howling and sneezing and a great crash | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from inside=Initial_Location |
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:13.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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