Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 7

Alice thinks one is a footman "because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a fish"; the other has "a round face, and large eyes like a frog".

Who acts: Alice, one, footman, other · What happens: think, be, judge, call, have · To what, where: footman, livery, round face · 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, one, footman, other), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 footman	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 footman	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 footman	det
6	footman	footman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 footman	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 livery	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 livery	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 livery	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 livery	case
12	livery	livery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 footman	advcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 judging	punct
14	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	16 judging	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 otherwise	punct
16	judging	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 called	advcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 judging	obl
20	only	only	ADV	_	19 face	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 called	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 called	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 called	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 called	aux
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 livery	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 called	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fish	det
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	xcomp
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 called	punct
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 has	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 other	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 has	nsubj
33	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	parataxis
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 face	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 face	det
36	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 face	amod
37	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 has	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 eyes	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 eyes	cc
40	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 eyes	amod
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 face	conj
42	like	like	ADP	_	44 frog	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 frog	det
44	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eyes	nmod
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 face	punct
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Alice					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	one	a footman				tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	footman			livery		tree rules
4	judge in a quote	gerund	Alice not said here				by footman's face; otherwise property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
5	call in a quote	would · perfect	Alice		footman			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	have	present	the other	a round face and large eyes like a frog				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient

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:7.

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 ×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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