Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 10
Walking along, the nervous White Rabbit whispers that the Duchess is under sentence of execution for boxing the Queen's ears, and Alice gives a little scream of laughter.
Who acts: nervous Rabbit, Duchess, execution, Alice, laughter · What happens: walk, whisper, be, box, give, scream · To what, where: sentence, ears, little scream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red)» 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 (nervous Rabbit, Duchess, execution, 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 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 whispers | advcl |
| 2 | along | along | ADV | _ | 1 Walking | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Walking | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rabbit | det |
| 5 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Rabbit | amod |
| 6 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 whispers | amod |
| 7 | Rabbit | rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 whispers | nsubj |
| 8 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 sentence | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Duchess | det |
| 11 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sentence | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sentence | cop |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 sentence | case |
| 14 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whispers | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 execution | case |
| 16 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sentence | nmod |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 boxing | mark |
| 18 | boxing | box | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 execution | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Queen | det |
| 20 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ears | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Queen | case |
| 22 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 boxing | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gives | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gives | cc |
| 25 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 gives | nsubj |
| 26 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 whispers | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 scream | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 scream | amod |
| 29 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gives | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 laughter | case |
| 31 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 scream | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 whispers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | the nervous Rabbit not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | present | the nervous Rabbit | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the Duchess | sentence | of execution | tree rules | |||
| 4 | box | gerund | execution not said here | the Queen's ears | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | give | present | Alice | a little scream of laughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Theme | ||||
| 6 | scream | laughter | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:10.
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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×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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