Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 6
A footman is a servant who opens doors and carries messages; livery is the uniform servants of a great house wore; both footmen have powdered hair curled all over their heads.
Who acts: footman, servant, livery, uniform servants · What happens: be, open, carry, wear, powder, curl · To what, where: servant, doors, messages, uniform servants, hair, heads
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, servant, livery, uniform servants), 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 footman | det |
| 2 | footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 servant | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 servant | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 servant | det |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 opens | nsubj |
| 7 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 servant | acl:relcl |
| 8 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 opens | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carries | cc |
| 10 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 opens | conj |
| 11 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carries | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 servant | punct |
| 13 | livery | livery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 servants | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 servants | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 servants | det |
| 16 | uniform | uniform | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 servants | amod |
| 17 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 servant | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | amod |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 servants | nmod |
| 22 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 servants | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 powdered | punct |
| 24 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 footmen | det |
| 25 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 have | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 powdered | aux |
| 27 | powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 servant | parataxis |
| 28 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 powdered | obj |
| 29 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 hair | acl |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 heads | advmod |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 heads | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 heads | nmod:poss |
| 33 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 curled | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 servant | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a footman | a servant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | present | a servant | doors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | a servant not said here | messages | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | livery | the uniform servants | of a great house | tree rules | |||
| 5 | wear | past | the uniform servants not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | powder | present · perfect | hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | |||||
| 7 | curl | participle | hair not said here | messages's heads | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Destination |
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:6.
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, R7-rel-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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