Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 21

The March Hare's house is so large that Alice does not like to go nearer till she has nibbled some more of the left-hand bit and grown to about two feet high.

Who acts: house, Alice · What happens: be, not like, go, nibble, grow · To what, where: more, high

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» 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 (house, Alice), 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	3 Hare	det
2	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Hare	compound
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Hare	case
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 large	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 large	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 large	advmod
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 like	mark
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 like	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 like	advmod
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 large	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 like	xcomp
16	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 go	advmod
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 nibbled	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 nibbled	nsubj
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 nibbled	aux
20	nibbled	nibble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 like	advcl
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 more	det
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 nibbled	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	28 bit	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bit	det
25	left	leave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hand	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 hand	punct
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bit	compound
28	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 more	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 grown	cc
30	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 nibbled	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 feet	case
32	about	about	ADV	_	33 two	advmod
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 feet	nummod
34	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 high	obl
35	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 grown	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 large	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the March Hare's house		large property	tree rules
2	not like	present · do-support	Alice			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here		near property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	nibble	present · perfect	Alice	some more of the hand bit		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
5	grow	participle	Alice not said here	high		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:21.

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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