Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 15
A plate comes "skimming out, straight at the Footman's head", grazes his nose (just scrapes it) and breaks, and he goes on talking "exactly as if nothing had happened": "I shall sit here till tomorrow—or next day, maybe."
Who acts: plate, nose, footman, nothing · What happens: come, skim out, graze, scrape, break, go on · To what, where: head, nose · 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 (plate, nose, footman, nothing), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 plate | det |
| 2 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 skimming | punct |
| 5 | skimming | skim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 comes | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 skimming | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 head | punct |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 13 head | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Footman | det |
| 11 | Footman | footman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Footman | case |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skimming | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 head | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grazes | punct |
| 16 | grazes | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 comes | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 nose | nmod:poss |
| 18 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grazes | obj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 scrapes | punct |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 scrapes | advmod |
| 21 | scrapes | scrape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 nose | acl:relcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 scrapes | obj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 scrapes | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 breaks | cc |
| 25 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 grazes | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 goes | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 goes | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 goes | nsubj |
| 29 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 comes | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 goes | compound:prt |
| 31 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 goes | xcomp |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 talking | punct |
| 33 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 38 happened | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 happened | mark |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 happened | mark |
| 36 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 38 happened | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 happened | aux |
| 38 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 talking | advcl |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 happened | punct |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 sit | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 sit | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 sit | nsubj |
| 43 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 sit | aux |
| 44 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comes | parataxis |
| 45 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 sit | advmod |
| 46 | till | till | ADP | _ | 47 tomorrow | case |
| 47 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sit | obl |
| 48 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 day | punct |
| 49 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 day | cc |
| 50 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 day | amod |
| 51 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sit | obl:unmarked |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 maybe | punct |
| 53 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 44 sit | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 55 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | a plate | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | skim out in a quote | gerund | a plate not said here | the Footman's head | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | graze | present | a plate not said here | footman's nose | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | scrape | present | footman's nose not said here | nose | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | break | present | a plate not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | go on | present | footman | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | talk | gerund | footman not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | happen in a quote | past · perfect | nothing | exactly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | sit in a quote | shall | the Footman = footman | here | day; tomorrow | maybe property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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): R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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