Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 4
Alice heads for the March Hare's house, with ear-shaped chimneys and a fur roof, makes herself two feet tall and walks up nervously: a strange, dreamy part, both funny and a bit creepy.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: head, shape, make, walk up · To what, where: Alice
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 (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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 heads | nsubj |
| 2 | heads | head | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hare | det |
| 5 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hare | compound |
| 6 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Hare | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heads | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chimneys | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 chimneys | case |
| 11 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shaped | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 shaped | punct |
| 13 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 chimneys | amod |
| 14 | chimneys | chimney | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 house | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 roof | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 roof | det |
| 17 | fur | fur | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 roof | amod |
| 18 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chimneys | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 makes | punct |
| 20 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 heads | conj |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 makes | obj |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 feet | nummod |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tall | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 makes | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 walks | cc |
| 26 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 makes | conj |
| 27 | up | up | PART | _ | 26 walks | compound:prt |
| 28 | nervously | nervously | ADV | _ | 26 walks | advmod |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 part | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 part | det |
| 31 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 part | amod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 strange | punct |
| 33 | dreamy | dreamy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 part | amod |
| 34 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 walks | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 funny | punct |
| 36 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 37 funny | cc:preconj |
| 37 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 part | amod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 creepy | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 bit | det |
| 40 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 creepy | obl |
| 41 | creepy | creepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 funny | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | head | present | Alice | for the March Hare's house | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | make | present | Alice not said here | Alice | tall property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product | |||
| 4 | walk up | present | Alice not said here | nervously property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:4.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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