Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 1
Just as Alice gets her flamingo's neck straight, it twists round and looks up into her face so puzzled that she bursts out laughing; meanwhile her hedgehog uncurls and crawls away, and the soldier-arches keep getting up and wandering off.
Who acts: Alice, neck, hedgehog, soldier arches · What happens: get, twist, look up, burst out, laugh, uncurl · To what, where: neck
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body)» 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, neck, hedgehog, soldier arches), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 gets | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 gets | mark |
| 3 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 twists | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 flamingo | nmod:poss |
| 6 | flamingo | flamingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 flamingo | case |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obj |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gets | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 twists | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 twists | nsubj |
| 12 | twists | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 twists | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looks | cc |
| 15 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 twists | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 looks | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 face | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looks | obl |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 puzzled | advmod |
| 21 | puzzled | puzzle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 twists | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 bursts | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bursts | nsubj |
| 24 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 puzzled | ccomp |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 bursts | compound:prt |
| 26 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 bursts | advcl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 uncurls | punct |
| 28 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 31 uncurls | advmod |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hedgehog | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 uncurls | nsubj |
| 31 | uncurls | uncurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 twists | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 crawls | cc |
| 33 | crawls | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 uncurls | conj |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 crawls | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 keep | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 keep | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 arches | det |
| 38 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 arches | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 soldier | punct |
| 40 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 keep | nsubj |
| 41 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 twists | parataxis |
| 42 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 keep | xcomp |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 getting | compound:prt |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 wandering | cc |
| 45 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 getting | conj |
| 46 | off | off | ADP | _ | 45 wandering | compound:prt |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 twists | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Alice | Alice's flamingo's neck | straight property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | twist | present | neck | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look up | present | neck not said here | into Alice's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burst out | present | Alice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | laugh | gerund | Alice not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | uncurl | present | Alice's hedgehog | meanwhile property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | crawl away | present | Alice's hedgehog not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | keep | present | the soldier arches | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | get up | gerund | the soldier arches not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 10 | wonder off speech: ask | gerund | the soldier arches not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.lesson:1.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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