Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 19
A glass box under the table holds a small cake with "EAT ME" marked in currants (small dried grapes); her plan: "if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door", so either way she gets into the garden.
Who acts: glass box, box, Alice · What happens: hold, eat, mark, dry, make, grow · To what, where: small cake, Alice, currants, key, door, way
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 (glass box, box, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 box | det |
| 2 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 box | compound |
| 3 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holds | nsubj |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 box | nmod |
| 7 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cake | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cake | amod |
| 10 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holds | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 EAT | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 EAT | punct |
| 13 | EAT | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cake | nmod |
| 14 | ME | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 EAT | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 EAT | punct |
| 16 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 EAT | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 currants | case |
| 18 | currants | currant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 marked | obl |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 grapes | punct |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 grapes | amod |
| 21 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 grapes | amod |
| 22 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 currants | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 grapes | punct |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 plan | punct |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 plan | nmod:poss |
| 26 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holds | parataxis |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 reach | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 reach | punct |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 makes | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 makes | nsubj |
| 31 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 reach | advcl |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 makes | obj |
| 33 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 makes | xcomp |
| 34 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 grow | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 makes | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 reach | nsubj |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 reach | aux |
| 38 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 holds | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 key | det |
| 40 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 reach | obj |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 creep | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 creep | cc |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 makes | mark |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 makes | nsubj |
| 45 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 creep | advcl |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 makes | obj |
| 47 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 makes | xcomp |
| 48 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 47 grow | xcomp |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 makes | punct |
| 50 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 creep | nsubj |
| 51 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 creep | aux |
| 52 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 reach | conj |
| 53 | under | under | ADP | _ | 55 door | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 door | det |
| 55 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 creep | obl |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 door | punct |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 so | punct |
| 58 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 holds | conj |
| 59 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 60 way | det |
| 60 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 so | nsubj |
| 61 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 gets | nsubj |
| 62 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 60 way | acl:relcl |
| 63 | into | into | ADP | _ | 65 garden | case |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 garden | det |
| 65 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 gets | obl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | a glass box under the table | a small cake | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | infinitive | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mark | participle | currants | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in currant=Destination | |||||
| 4 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | box | Alice | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | grow in a quote | infinitive | Alice not said here | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | reach in a quote | can | Alice | the key | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 8 | make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | box | Alice | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | grow in a quote | infinitive | Alice not said here | small property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | creep in a quote | can | Alice | the door | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under door=Trajectory | ||||
| 11 | get | present | Alice | either way not said here | the garden | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||
| 12 | plan | Alice | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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:19.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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