Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 13
Alice remembers stories of children who were burnt or eaten by wild beasts because they forgot simple rules, so she checks the bottle is not marked "poison"; one rule she remembers is that if you drink much from a bottle marked "poison", "it is almost certain to disagree with you" (make you ill).
Who acts: Alice, stories, you, bottle, it · What happens: remember, burn, eat, forget, check, not mark · To what, where: stories, children, simple rules, bottle, one rule, much · 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, stories, you, bottle), 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 remembers | nsubj |
| 2 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 remembers | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stories | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 burnt | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burnt | aux:pass |
| 8 | burnt | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 children | acl:relcl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 eaten | cc |
| 10 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 burnt | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 beasts | case |
| 12 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beasts | amod |
| 13 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eaten | obl:agent |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 forgot | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 forgot | nsubj |
| 16 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 eaten | advcl |
| 17 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rules | amod |
| 18 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 forgot | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 checks | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 checks | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 checks | nsubj |
| 22 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembers | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bottle | det |
| 24 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 marked | aux:pass |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 marked | advmod |
| 27 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 checks | ccomp |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 poison | punct |
| 29 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 marked | xcomp |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 poison | punct |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 remembers | punct |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 rule | nummod |
| 33 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 remembers | obj |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 remembers | nsubj |
| 35 | remembers | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembers | conj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 certain | cop |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 54 certain | mark |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 drink | mark |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 drink | nsubj |
| 40 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 certain | advcl |
| 41 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 drink | obj |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 bottle | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 bottle | det |
| 44 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 drink | obl |
| 45 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 bottle | acl |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 poison | punct |
| 47 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 marked | obj |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 poison | punct |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 drink | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 certain | punct |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 certain | nsubj |
| 52 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 certain | cop |
| 53 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 54 certain | advmod |
| 54 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 remembers | ccomp |
| 55 | to | to | PART | _ | 56 disagree | mark |
| 56 | disagree | disagree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 54 certain | xcomp |
| 57 | with | with | ADP | _ | 58 you | case |
| 58 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 56 disagree | obl |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 56 disagree | punct |
| 60 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 61 make | punct |
| 61 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 54 certain | parataxis |
| 62 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 61 make | obj |
| 63 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 make | xcomp |
| 64 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 61 make | punct |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | Alice | stories of children | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn | past · passive | children | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | eat | participle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | forget | past | stories = story | simple rules | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | check | present | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not mark | present · passive | the bottle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 7 | remember | present | Alice | one rule | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | ||||
| 8 | drink a condition, not said to happen | present | you | much | a bottle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | |||
| 9 | mark | participle | a bottle not said here | poison | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent poison=Destination | ||||
| 10 | is in a quote | present | it | almost, certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | disagree in a quote | to-infinitive | with you | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent | |||||
| 12 | make | infinitive | you | ill property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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:13.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5, 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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