Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 5
The Rabbit, turning a corner, says "Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!", and then disappears.
Who acts: Rabbit, corner · What happens: turn, say, get, disappear · To what, where: corner · 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 (Rabbit, corner), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turning | punct |
| 4 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Rabbit | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 corner | det |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turning | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Rabbit | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ears | punct |
| 10 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 ears | discourse |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ears | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 says | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 whiskers | cc |
| 14 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ears | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 getting | punct |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 late | advmod |
| 17 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 getting | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 getting | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 getting | aux |
| 20 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 ears | appos |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 ears | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ears | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 disappears | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 disappears | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 disappears | advmod |
| 26 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | the Rabbit not said here | a corner | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | the Rabbit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present · progressive | corner | late property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | disappear | present | the Rabbit not said here | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:5.
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 ×1, 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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