Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 19

Alice puts the Lizard in head downwards; she sets him right, though she thinks he'd be «quite as much use in the trial one way up as the other».

Who acts: Alice, trial · What happens: put, set, think, be · To what, where: Lizard, trial, much use · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Alice, trial), 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 puts	nsubj
2	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lizard	det
4	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 puts	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 downwards	case
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puts	obl
7	downwards	downwards	ADV	_	2 puts	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 sets	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sets	nsubj
10	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 puts	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sets	obj
12	right	right	ADV	_	10 sets	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thinks	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 thinks	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thinks	nsubj
16	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sets	advcl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 use	nsubj
18	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 use	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 use	cop
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 use	punct
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 use	amod
24	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thinks	ccomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 trial	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trial	det
27	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 use	nmod
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 way	nummod
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 up	obl
30	up	up	ADV	_	24 use	advmod
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 other	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 other	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 use	obl
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 use	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 puts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	present	Alice		the Lizard		head obl; downwards property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lizard=Goal
2	set	present	Alice	trial			right property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result
3	think speech: other	present	Alice					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	would	trial	much use		the trial	as the other	tree rules

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:19.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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