Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 12
Alice tucks her flamingo under her arm, but it twists round and looks up at her with «such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing».
Who acts: Alice, flamingo, puzzled expression · What happens: tuck, twist, look up, puzzle, not help, burst out · To what, where: flamingo, arm, puzzled expression, »
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, flamingo, puzzled expression), 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 tucks | nsubj |
| 2 | tucks | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 flamingo | nmod:poss |
| 4 | flamingo | flamingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tucks | obj |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 arm | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arm | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tucks | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 twists | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 twists | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 twists | nsubj |
| 11 | twists | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tucks | conj |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 twists | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looks | cc |
| 14 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 twists | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 looks | compound:prt |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looks | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 expression | case |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 expression | punct |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 expression | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 expression | det |
| 22 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 expression | amod |
| 23 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looks | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 help | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 help | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 help | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 help | advmod |
| 28 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 expression | acl:relcl |
| 29 | bursting | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 help | xcomp |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 bursting | compound:prt |
| 31 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 bursting | xcomp |
| 32 | » | » | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 laughing | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tucks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck | present | Alice | Alice's flamingo | Alice's arm | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flamingo=Theme under arm=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | twist | present | flamingo | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look up | present | flamingo not said here | at Alice; with such puzzled expression | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at her=Theme | ||||
| 4 | puzzle in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | not help in a quote | could | Alice | such puzzled expression not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent expression=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | burst out not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | such puzzled expression not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | laugh in a quote | gerund | such puzzled expression not said here | » | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent »=Theme |
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:12.
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, 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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