Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 2

She starts with the White Rabbit, nervous at first with the two big creatures pressing close on each side, but braver as she goes on.

Who acts: Alice, two big creatures · What happens: start, press, go on

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» 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, two big creatures), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 starts	nsubj
2	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 Rabbit	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rabbit	det
5	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Rabbit	amod
6	Rabbit	rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 starts	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nervous	punct
8	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Rabbit	amod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 first	case
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 nervous	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	15 creatures	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 creatures	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 creatures	nummod
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 creatures	amod
15	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nervous	obl
16	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 creatures	acl
17	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 pressing	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 side	case
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 side	det
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pressing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 braver	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 braver	cc
23	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 nervous	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 goes	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 goes	nsubj
26	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 braver	advcl
27	on	on	ADV	_	26 goes	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 starts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	start	present	Alice	with the White Rabbit	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with rabbit=Subeventuality
2	press	gerund	the two big creatures not said here	on each side; close property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on side=Theme
3	go on	present	Alice		vn function-105.2.1 «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:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.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): 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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