Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 18

Alice does not lie down, because «what would be the use of a procession» if nobody could see it?

Who acts: Alice, nobody · What happens: not lie down, be, see · To what, where: use, procession

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 (Alice, nobody), 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	4 lie	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 lie	advmod
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 lie	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 use	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 use	mark
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 use	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 use	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 use	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 use	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 use	det
13	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lie	advcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 procession	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 procession	det
16	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 use	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 use	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 see	mark
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 see	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 use	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 see	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lie	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not lie down	present · do-support	Alice			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	would		the use	of a procession	tree rules
3	see a condition, not said to happen	could	nobody	procession		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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:18.

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. 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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