Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 2
Back at the table a bottle labelled "DRINK ME" has appeared; sensible Alice checks it is not marked "poison", tastes it, finds it delicious and shrinks to ten inches.
Who acts: bottle, sensible Alice · What happens: label, drink, appear, check, not mark, taste · To what, where: bottle, ME
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 (bottle, sensible 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 | Back | back | ADV | _ | 13 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 table | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 table | det |
| 4 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Back | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bottle | det |
| 6 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | labelled | label | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bottle | acl |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 DRINK | punct |
| 9 | DRINK | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 labelled | xcomp |
| 10 | ME | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 DRINK | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 DRINK | punct |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 appeared | aux |
| 13 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 checks | punct |
| 15 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Alice | amod |
| 16 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 checks | nsubj |
| 17 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 appeared | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 marked | aux:pass |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 marked | advmod |
| 21 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 checks | ccomp |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 poison | punct |
| 23 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 marked | xcomp |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 poison | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tastes | punct |
| 26 | tastes | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 checks | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 tastes | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 finds | punct |
| 29 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 tastes | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 finds | obj |
| 31 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 finds | xcomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 shrinks | cc |
| 33 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 finds | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 inches | case |
| 35 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 inches | nummod |
| 36 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 shrinks | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | label | participle | a bottle not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink in a quote | infinitive | ME | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 3 | appear | present · perfect | a bottle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | check | present | sensible Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not mark | present · passive | bottle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 6 | taste | present | sensible Alice not said here | bottle | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | find | present | sensible Alice not said here | bottle | delicious property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 8 | shrink | present | sensible Alice not said here | to ten inches result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to inch=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:2.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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