Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 4
Under the table she finds a little cake marked "EAT ME", reasons that any change of size will help, and eats it all: the part ends on a cliffhanger, full of hope and worry at once.
Who acts: Alice, change, part, size · What happens: find, mark, eat, help, end, change · To what, where: little cake, table, Alice, cliffhanger · Speech: someone speaks here
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, change, part, size), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 table | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 table | det |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 finds | nsubj |
| 5 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cake | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cake | amod |
| 8 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finds | obj |
| 9 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cake | acl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 EAT | punct |
| 11 | EAT | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 marked | xcomp |
| 12 | ME | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 EAT | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 EAT | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reasons | punct |
| 15 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 finds | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 help | mark |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 change | det |
| 18 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 help | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 size | case |
| 20 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 change | nmod |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 help | aux |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 reasons | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eats | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eats | cc |
| 25 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 finds | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 eats | obj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 it | det |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 ends | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 part | det |
| 30 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ends | nsubj |
| 31 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 finds | parataxis |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 cliffhanger | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 cliffhanger | det |
| 34 | cliffhanger | cliffhanger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ends | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 full | punct |
| 36 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 cliffhanger | amod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 hope | case |
| 38 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 full | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 worry | cc |
| 40 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hope | conj |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 once | case |
| 42 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 31 ends | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Alice | a little cake | the table | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Topic | |||
| 2 | mark | participle | a little cake not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | infinitive | Alice | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 4 | help | future | any change of size | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | eat | present | Alice not said here | table | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | end | present | the part | a cliffhanger | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | change | size | nom change «event intransitive»: of=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:4.
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, 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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