Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 31
Alice has been growing all through the trial and gets bolder as she gets bigger; the Queen says «That proves his guilt»; Alice says «It proves nothing of the sort!
Who acts: Alice, Queen, That, guilt · What happens: grow, get, say, prove · To what, where: all, trial, guilt, nothing · 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, Queen, That, guilt), 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 | 4 growing | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 growing | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 growing | aux |
| 4 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 growing | obj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 trial | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trial | det |
| 8 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 growing | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gets | cc |
| 10 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 growing | conj |
| 11 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 gets | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 gets | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gets | nsubj |
| 14 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 says | advcl |
| 15 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 gets | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 gets | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Queen | det |
| 18 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 says | nsubj |
| 19 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bolder | conj |
| 20 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 22 proves | mark |
| 21 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 proves | nsubj |
| 22 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 says | ccomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 guilt | nmod:poss |
| 24 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 proves | obj |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 proves | punct |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 says | punct |
| 27 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 says | nsubj |
| 28 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 growing | parataxis |
| 29 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 31 proves | mark |
| 30 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 proves | nsubj |
| 31 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 says | ccomp |
| 32 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 31 proves | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 sort | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sort | det |
| 35 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 nothing | nmod |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 growing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- exclamation
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present · perfect · progressive | Alice | all | the trial | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | present | Alice not said here | bold property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | get | present | Alice | big property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | prove in a quote | present | That | trial's guilt | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guilt=Theme | ||||
| 6 | say speech: express | present | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | prove in a quote | present | guilt | nothing | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:31.
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, 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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