Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 8
The Fish-Footman brings a letter "nearly as large as himself": "For the Duchess.
Who acts: Fish Footman · What happens: bring · To what, where: letter
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 (Fish Footman), 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 | 4 Footman | det |
| 2 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Footman | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fish | punct |
| 4 | Footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brings | nsubj |
| 5 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 letter | det |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brings | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 large | punct |
| 9 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 11 large | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 large | advmod |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 letter | amod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 large | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 large | punct |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Duchess | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Duchess | punct |
| 17 | For | for | ADP | _ | 19 Duchess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Duchess | det |
| 19 | Duchess | duchess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brings | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | the Fish Footman | a letter | for the Duchess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
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:8.
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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