Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 21

Bill the Lizard's pencil squeaks, which Alice «could not stand»; she takes it away, and he has to write with one finger, which «left no mark on the slate».

Who acts: Alice, Bill, one finger, Lizard · What happens: not stand, take away, have, write, leave, squeak · To what, where: pencil squeaks, Lizard, mark, slate

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness)» 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, Bill, one finger, Lizard), 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	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lizard	det
3	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 squeaks	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Lizard	case
5	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squeaks	compound
6	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bill	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stand	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 stand	obj
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stand	nsubj
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 stand	punct
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stand	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 stand	advmod
13	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 squeaks	acl:relcl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 stand	punct
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 takes	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 takes	nsubj
17	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stand	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 takes	obj
19	away	away	ADV	_	17 takes	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 has	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stand	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 write	mark
25	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 has	xcomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 finger	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 finger	nummod
28	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 write	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 left	nsubj
31	«	«	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
32	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 finger	acl:relcl
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 mark	det
34	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 slate	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 slate	det
37	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	obl
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 squeaks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not stand in a quote	could	Alice	the Lizard's pencil squeaks			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
2	take away	present	Bill	Lizard		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	have	present	Alice				tree rules
4	write	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			with one finger	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	leave in a quote	past	one finger	no mark	the slate		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme on slate=Location
6	squeak		the Lizard				nom squeak «event intransitive»: poss=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:021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.lesson:21.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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