Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 4
Alice stays standing, because what is the use of a procession if everyone lies on their faces?
Who acts: Alice, everyone · What happens: stay, stand, be, lie · To what, where: use, faces
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, everyone), 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 stays | nsubj |
| 2 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stays | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 use | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 use | mark |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 use | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 use | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 use | det |
| 9 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stays | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 procession | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 procession | det |
| 12 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 use | nmod |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 lies | mark |
| 14 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 lies | nsubj |
| 15 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 use | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 faces | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 faces | nmod:poss |
| 18 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lies | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=assert, indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Alice not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the use | of a procession | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie a condition, not said to happen | present | everyone | gardeners's faces | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on face=Location |
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: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): no change. 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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