Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 3

But she has left the key on top of the glass table, cannot climb the slippery leg, and sits down and cries, then tells herself off sharply.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: leave, not climb, sit down, cry, tell off · To what, where: key, top, slippery leg, Alice

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 left	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 key	det
6	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 top	case
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 table	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 table	compound
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 climb	punct
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 climb	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 climb	advmod
16	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 leg	det
18	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 leg	amod
19	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 climb	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sits	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sits	cc
22	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 sits	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cries	cc
25	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sits	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sits	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 tells	advmod
28	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 climb	conj
29	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 tells	obj
30	off	off	ADP	_	28 tells	compound:prt
31	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	28 tells	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present · perfect	Alice	the key	top of the glass table			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent key=Theme on top=Location
2	not climb	can	Alice not said here	the slippery leg				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location leg=Theme
3	sit down	present	Alice not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	present	Alice not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell off speech: assert	present	Alice not said here	Alice		then	sharply property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient

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:3.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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