Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 5
Bit by bit its eyes and its head appear, and Alice tells it all her complaints.
Who acts: eyes, Alice · What happens: appear, tell, complain · To what, where: complaints, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (eyes, Alice), 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 | Bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bit | compound |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 bit | case |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appear | obl |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 appear | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 head | cc |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | conj |
| 9 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tells | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tells | cc |
| 12 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 tells | nsubj |
| 13 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 appear | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tells | iobj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 complaints | det |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 complaints | nmod:poss |
| 17 | complaints | complaint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tells | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | infinitive | bit's eyes and bit's head | by Bit bit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bit=Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | Alice | Alice's complaints | head | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient complaint=Topic | |||
| 3 | complain | Alice | nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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