Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 7
Another juror's pencil squeaks; Alice sneaks behind him and takes it, and poor Bill the Lizard has to write with his finger, which leaves no mark at all.
Who acts: pencil, Alice, poor Bill, finger · What happens: squeak, sneak, take, have, write, leave · To what, where: pencil, mark, all
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 (pencil, Alice, poor Bill, finger), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 juror | det |
| 2 | juror | juror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pencil | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 juror | case |
| 4 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 squeaks | nsubj |
| 5 | squeaks | squeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 sneaks | punct |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sneaks | nsubj |
| 8 | sneaks | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 squeaks | parataxis |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sneaks | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 takes | cc |
| 12 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sneaks | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 takes | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 has | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 has | cc |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Bill | amod |
| 17 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 has | nsubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Lizard | det |
| 19 | Lizard | Lizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Bill | appos |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sneaks | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 write | mark |
| 22 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 has | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 finger | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 finger | nmod:poss |
| 25 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 write | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leaves | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 leaves | nsubj |
| 28 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 finger | acl:relcl |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 mark | det |
| 30 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leaves | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 all | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 mark | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 squeaks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeak | present | another juror's pencil | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sneak | present | Alice | behind Knave | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | take | present | Alice not said here | pencil | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | poor Bill | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | write | to-infinitive | poor Bill not said here | with Alice's finger | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | leave | present | Alice's finger | no mark | all | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme at all=Location |
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:7.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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