Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 11
She walks off; looking back, she sees them trying to stuff the Dormouse into the teapot.
Who acts: Alice, cups · What happens: walk off, look back, see, try, stuff · To what, where: cups, Dormouse, teapot
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» 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, cups), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walks | nsubj |
| 2 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 walks | compound:prt |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sees | advcl |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 looking | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sees | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sees | nsubj |
| 9 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 walks | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sees | obj |
| 11 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sees | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 stuff | mark |
| 13 | stuff | stuff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 trying | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dormouse | det |
| 15 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stuff | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 teapot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 teapot | det |
| 18 | teapot | teapot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stuff | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk off | present | Alice | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look back | gerund | Alice not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | present | Alice | cups = cup | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | try | gerund | cups = cup not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | stuff not said to happen | to-infinitive | cups = cup not said here | the Dormouse | the teapot | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dormouse=Theme into teapot=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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:11.
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, 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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