Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 3
Alice starts to feel uneasy: what will happen to her when it's her turn to annoy the Queen?
Who acts: Alice, head · What happens: start, feel, happen, be, annoy · To what, where: Alice, Queen
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, head), 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 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 feel | mark |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 starts | xcomp |
| 5 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 happen | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 happen | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 happen | aux |
| 9 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 starts | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 turn | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 happen | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 turn | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turn | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 turn | cop |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 turn | nmod:poss |
| 16 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happen | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 annoy | mark |
| 18 | annoy | annoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 turn | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Queen | det |
| 20 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 annoy | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Alice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | uneasy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | happen | future | Alice | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | head | to Alice's turn | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | annoy | to-infinitive | the Queen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus queen=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:3.
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, 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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