Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 1

It reminds her of the goldfish bowl she upset last week, and she quickly scoops them back in, so quickly that she puts Bill the Lizard in upside down, waving his tail.

Who acts: It, she · What happens: remind, upset, scoop, put, wave · To what, where: her, goldfish bowl, them, Bill, tail

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)» 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 (It, she), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reminds	nsubj
2	reminds	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reminds	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 bowl	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bowl	det
6	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bowl	compound
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reminds	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 upset	nsubj
9	upset	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bowl	acl:relcl
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 week	amod
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 upset	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 scoops	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 scoops	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 scoops	nsubj
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	16 scoops	advmod
16	scoops	scoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reminds	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 scoops	obj
18	back	back	ADV	_	19 in	advmod
19	in	in	ADV	_	16 scoops	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 quickly	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 quickly	advmod
22	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	16 scoops	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 puts	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 puts	nsubj
25	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 quickly	advcl
26	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 puts	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Lizard	det
28	Lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Bill	appos
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 upside	case
30	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Lizard	nmod
31	down	down	ADV	_	25 puts	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 waving	punct
33	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 puts	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 tail	nmod:poss
35	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 waving	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reminds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	present	It		her = she		of the goldfish bowl	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of bowl=Topic
2	upset	past	she	the goldfish bowl not said here		week		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bowl=Experiencer
3	scoop	present	she	them = they			quickly property	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	put	present	she		Bill		down property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bill=Goal
5	wave	gerund	she not said here	Bill's tail				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:1.

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. 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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