Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 15
She waits to see if she will shrink further, worried she might go out "like a candle".
Who acts: Alice · What happens: wait, see, shrink, go out
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waits | nsubj |
| 2 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 see | mark |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 waits | advcl |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 shrink | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shrink | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 shrink | aux |
| 8 | shrink | shrink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | ccomp |
| 9 | further | further | ADV | _ | 8 shrink | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worried | punct |
| 11 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 waits | conj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 worried | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 candle | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 candle | det |
| 19 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 candle | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waits | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | Alice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | shrink a condition, not said to happen | future | Alice | further property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go out | might | Alice | like a candle; out property | vn interact-36.6 «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:002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.lesson:15.
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 ×1, 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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