Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 6
When she notices the Queen listening behind her, she cleverly changes «she's so extremely—» into «—likely to win».
Who acts: Alice, Queen · What happens: notice, listen, change, win · To what, where: Queen, likely
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, Queen), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 notices | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 notices | nsubj |
| 3 | notices | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 changes | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 notices | obj |
| 6 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 notices | xcomp |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 listening | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 changes | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 changes | nsubj |
| 11 | cleverly | cleverly | ADV | _ | 12 changes | advmod |
| 12 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 changes | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 — | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 — | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 extremely | advmod |
| 17 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 18 — | advmod |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 changes | parataxis |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 changes | punct |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 likely | case |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 likely | punct |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 likely | punct |
| 23 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 changes | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 win | mark |
| 25 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 likely | xcomp |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 likely | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | present | Alice | the Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | the Queen not said here | behind Alice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | present | Alice | likely | cleverly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | win in a quote | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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 ×2. 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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