Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 11
The whole pack flies up and comes down on her, and she finds herself lying on the river bank with her head in her sister's lap, while her sister brushes falling leaves off her face.
Who acts: whole pack, pack, sister · What happens: fly up, come down, find, lie, brush, fall · To what, where: pack, river bank, falling leaves, face
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» 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 (whole pack, pack, sister), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pack | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pack | amod |
| 3 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flies | nsubj |
| 4 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 flies | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 comes | cc |
| 7 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flies | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 comes | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 comes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 finds | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 finds | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 finds | nsubj |
| 14 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flies | conj |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 finds | obj |
| 16 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 finds | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 bank | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bank | det |
| 19 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bank | compound |
| 20 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lying | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bank | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 lap | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sister | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lap | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 sister | case |
| 28 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bank | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 brushes | punct |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 brushes | mark |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sister | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 brushes | nsubj |
| 33 | brushes | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lying | advcl |
| 34 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 leaves | amod |
| 35 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 brushes | obj |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 face | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 face | nmod:poss |
| 38 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 brushes | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | present | the whole pack | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come down | present | the whole pack not said here | on pack; down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on her=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | present | pack | pack | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | pack not said here | the river bank with pack's head in pack's sister's lap | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | ||||
| 5 | brush | present | pack's sister | falling leaves | pack's face | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme off face=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «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:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:11.
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): R7-rel-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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