Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 17

Alice "generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)", and she once tried to box her own ears for cheating at croquet against herself; to "box someone's ears" means to slap them on the side of the head, which nobody should do today.

Who acts: Alice, nobody · What happens: give, follow, try, box, cheat, mean · To what, where: good advice, Alice, advice, own ears, croquet, ears

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, nobody), 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	4 gave	nsubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
3	generally	generally	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 gave	iobj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 good	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 advice	amod
8	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 followed	punct
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 followed	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 followed	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 followed	nsubj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 seldom	advmod
14	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	15 followed	advmod
15	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 followed	obj
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 followed	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tried	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tried	nsubj
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 tried	advmod
23	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 box	mark
25	box	box	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tried	xcomp
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 ears	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ears	amod
28	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 box	obj
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 cheating	mark
30	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 tried	advcl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 croquet	case
32	croquet	croquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cheating	obl
33	against	against	ADP	_	34 herself	case
34	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 cheating	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 means	punct
36	to	to	PART	_	43 means	mark
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 box	punct
38	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ears	compound
39	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	41 ears	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 someone	case
41	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 to	appos
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 ears	punct
43	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 slap	mark
45	slap	slap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 means	xcomp
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 slap	obj
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 side	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 side	det
49	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 slap	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 head	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 head	det
52	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 side	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 do	punct
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 do	obj
55	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	57 do	nsubj
56	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 do	aux
57	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 slap	acl:relcl
58	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 do	obl:unmarked
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	Alice	good advice	Alice			generally property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient advice=Theme
2	follow in a quote	past	Alice	advice				seldom property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	try	past	Alice					once property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	box not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	Alice's own ears					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Co-Agent
5	cheat	gerund	Alice not said here			croquet		against Alice	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	mean	present	Alice not said here						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	slap not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	ears = ear				on the side of the head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Instrument on side=Patient
8	do	should	nobody				today		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality

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:17.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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