Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 14
The Footman says there's no use knocking for two reasons: "First, because I'm on the same side of the door as you are; secondly, because they're making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you."
Who acts: Footman, use, you, doors, one · What happens: say, be, knock, make, hear · To what, where: same side, noise, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Footman, use, you, doors), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Footman | det |
| 2 | Footman | footman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 's | expl |
| 5 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 use | det |
| 7 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 's | nsubj |
| 8 | knocking | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 use | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 reasons | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 reasons | nummod |
| 11 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knocking | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 First | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 First | punct |
| 14 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 's | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 side | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 side | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 side | nsubj |
| 18 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 side | cop |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 side | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 side | amod |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 's | advcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 door | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 side | nmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 are | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 are | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 side | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 secondly | punct |
| 30 | secondly | secondly | ADV | _ | 5 's | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 secondly | punct |
| 32 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 making | mark |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 making | nsubj |
| 34 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 making | aux |
| 35 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 says | parataxis |
| 36 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 noise | det:predet |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 noise | det |
| 38 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 making | obj |
| 39 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 35 making | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 making | punct |
| 41 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 42 one | det |
| 42 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hear | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 hear | aux |
| 44 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 45 hear | advmod |
| 45 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 making | conj |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 hear | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 making | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 making | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Footman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | present | no use | there | first, secondly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | knock | gerund | no use not said here | for two reasons | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the Footman = footman | the same side | of the door | tree rules | |||
| 5 | does in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | make in a quote | present · progressive | doors = door | such noise | inside property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | |||
| 7 | hear in a quote | could | no one | you | possibly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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:14.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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