Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 16

She forgot the key on the table; the glass leg is too slippery to climb, so she cries.

Who acts: Alice, glass leg · What happens: forget, be, climb, cry · To what, where: key, table

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, glass leg), 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 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 key	det
4	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgot	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 table	det
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 key	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 slippery	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leg	det
10	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leg	compound
11	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slippery	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 slippery	cop
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 slippery	advmod
14	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 forgot	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 climb	mark
16	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 slippery	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cries	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 cries	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cries	nsubj
20	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	forget	past	Alice	the key	the table		tree rules
2	is	present	the glass leg			slippery property	tree rules
3	climb	to-infinitive	the glass leg not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	present	Alice				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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:16.

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 ×3. 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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