Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 10
Alice wishes she could "shut up like a telescope", meaning fold down smaller like a pull-out telescope.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: wish, shut up, mean, fold down · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 wishes | nsubj |
| 2 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shut | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 shut | aux |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 shut | punct |
| 6 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wishes | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 shut | compound:prt |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 telescope | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 telescope | det |
| 10 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shut | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 shut | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 meaning | punct |
| 13 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wishes | parataxis |
| 14 | fold | fold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 meaning | ccomp |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 smaller | advmod |
| 16 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 fold | xcomp |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 telescope | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 telescope | det |
| 19 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 telescope | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 pull | punct |
| 21 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pull | compound |
| 22 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 smaller | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wishes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | Alice | vn wish-62 «NP V that S»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shut up in a quote | could | Alice | like a telescope | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | gerund | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | fold down | infinitive | small property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:10.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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