Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 15
Alice begins «to grow larger again»; she first thinks of leaving the court, but decides to stay «as long as there was room for her».
Who acts: Alice, room · What happens: begin, grow, think, leave, decide, stay · To what, where: court · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise 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, room), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 begins | nsubj |
| 2 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 begins | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 grow | mark |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begins | xcomp |
| 6 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 grow | xcomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 grow | advmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 grow | punct |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 thinks | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thinks | nsubj |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 thinks | advmod |
| 12 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 begins | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 leaving | mark |
| 14 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 thinks | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 court | det |
| 16 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leaving | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 decides | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 decides | cc |
| 19 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thinks | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 stay | mark |
| 21 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 decides | xcomp |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 long | punct |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 stay | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 was | mark |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 was | expl |
| 27 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 long | advcl |
| 28 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 was | nsubj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 room | nmod |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 long | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | Alice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | grow in a quote | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | again | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | Alice | first property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | Alice not said here | the court | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | ||||
| 5 | decide | present | Alice not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | be in a quote | past | room for Alice | there | vn exist-47.1 «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:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:15.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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