Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 1
All the doors are locked; then she finds a little glass table with a tiny golden key, which opens only a little door fifteen inches high, and through it she sees the loveliest garden, but she is far too big to get in.
Who acts: Alice, tiny golden key · What happens: lock, find, open, see, be, get in · To what, where: doors, little glass table, little door, loveliest garden, key
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME» 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, tiny golden key), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 doors | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doors | det |
| 3 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 locked | aux:pass |
| 5 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 finds | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 finds | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 finds | nsubj |
| 9 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 locked | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 table | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 table | amod |
| 12 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 table | compound |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finds | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 key | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 key | det |
| 16 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 key | amod |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 key | amod |
| 18 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 table | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 opens | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 opens | nsubj |
| 21 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 key | acl:relcl |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 door | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 door | amod |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opens | obj |
| 26 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 inches | nummod |
| 27 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 high | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 door | acl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sees | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sees | cc |
| 31 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sees | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sees | nsubj |
| 34 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 locked | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 garden | det |
| 36 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 garden | amod |
| 37 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sees | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 big | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 big | cc |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 big | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 big | cop |
| 42 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 big | advmod |
| 43 | too | too | ADV | _ | 44 big | advmod |
| 44 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 locked | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 get | mark |
| 46 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 big | advcl |
| 47 | in | in | ADV | _ | 46 get | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | present · passive | all doors | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | find | present | Alice | a little glass table | then | with a tiny golden key | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Topic | ||
| 3 | open | present | a tiny golden key | a little door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | present | Alice | the loveliest garden | key | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is | present | Alice | big, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | get in | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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:002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.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): 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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