Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 2
When she knocks, the Frog-Footman explains, very seriously and very stupidly, why knocking is useless, and doesn't even blink when a plate flies out and just misses his nose.
Who acts: Alice, Frog Footman, knocking, plate · What happens: knock, explain, be, not blink, fly out, miss · To what, where: 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 (Alice, Frog Footman, knocking, plate), 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 knocks | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knocks | nsubj |
| 3 | knocks | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 explains | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 explains | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Footman | det |
| 6 | Frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Footman | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Footman | punct |
| 8 | Footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 explains | nsubj |
| 9 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seriously | punct |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 seriously | advmod |
| 12 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 9 explains | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stupidly | cc |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 stupidly | advmod |
| 15 | stupidly | stupidly | ADV | _ | 12 seriously | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 useless | punct |
| 17 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 useless | advmod |
| 18 | knocking | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 useless | csubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 useless | cop |
| 20 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 explains | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 blink | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 blink | cc |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 blink | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 blink | advmod |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 blink | advmod |
| 26 | blink | blink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 explains | conj |
| 27 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 30 flies | mark |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 plate | det |
| 29 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flies | nsubj |
| 30 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 blink | advcl |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 flies | compound:prt |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 misses | cc |
| 33 | just | just | ADV | _ | 34 misses | advmod |
| 34 | misses | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 flies | conj |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 nose | nmod:poss |
| 36 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 misses | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 explains | 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 | knock | present | Alice | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | present | the Frog Footman | seriously property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | knock | gerund | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | knocking | useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not blink | present · do-support | the Frog Footman not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | fly out | present | a plate | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | miss | present | a plate not said here | footman's nose | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=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:2.
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 ×1, 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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