Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 14

The drink tastes of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee and hot buttered toast, and it shrinks her to "only ten inches high".

Who acts: drink · What happens: taste, butter, shrink · To what, where: Alice

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 (drink), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drink	det
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tastes	nsubj
3	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 tart	case
5	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tart	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cherry	punct
7	tart	tart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tastes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 custard	punct
9	custard	custard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tart	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 apple	punct
11	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 apple	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 pine	punct
13	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tart	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turkey	punct
15	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turkey	compound
16	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tart	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 toffee	punct
18	toffee	toffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tart	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 toast	cc
20	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 toast	amod
21	buttered	butter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 toast	amod
22	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tart	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shrinks	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shrinks	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shrinks	nsubj
26	shrinks	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tastes	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shrinks	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	33 high	case
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 high	punct
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 ten	advmod
31	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 inches	nummod
32	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 high	obl:unmarked
33	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shrinks	obl
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 high	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tastes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	taste	present	the drink		of cherry tart and custard and pine apple and roast turkey and toffee and hot buttered toast	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	butter	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	shrink	present	drink	Alice	to high result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient to high=Result

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:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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