Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 14

Her sister sits on, half-dreaming Wonderland too, and hears each strange noise turn into an ordinary farm sound; she pictures Alice grown up, telling these tales to children of her own.

Who acts: sister, strange noise · What happens: sit on, dream, hear, turn, picture, grow up · To what, where: Wonderland, strange noise, ordinary farm sound, Alice, tales, children · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sister, strange noise), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 sits	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dreaming	punct
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 dreaming	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 half	punct
8	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sits	conj
9	Wonderland	wonderland	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dreaming	obj
10	too	too	ADV	_	8 dreaming	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hears	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hears	cc
13	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sits	conj
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 noise	det
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 noise	amod
16	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hears	obj
17	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hears	xcomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	22 sound	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sound	det
20	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sound	amod
21	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sound	compound
22	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 pictures	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pictures	nsubj
25	pictures	picture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sits	parataxis
26	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 pictures	obj
27	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 Alice	acl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 grown	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 telling	punct
30	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 pictures	parataxis
31	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 tales	det
32	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 telling	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 children	case
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 telling	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 own	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 own	nmod:poss
37	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 children	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sits	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	sit on	present	Alice's sister				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dream	gerund	Alice's sister not said here	Wonderland			vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wonderland=Topic
3	hear	present	Alice's sister not said here	each strange noise			tree rules
4	turn	present	each strange noise not said here			a ordinary farm sound	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sound=Trajectory
5	picture	present	sister	Alice			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent alice=Theme
6	grow up	participle		Alice not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	gerund		this tales	children of sister's own		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to child=Recipient

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:14.

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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