Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 15

Looking back over the whole book: a bored girl followed a White Rabbit down a hole, grew and shrank, cried a pool of tears, met creatures who argued, gave orders and talked nonsense, and slowly learned to keep her temper, to hold her tongue when it would hurt, and in the end to stand up to unfairness and say «Nonsense!» — before waking to tea-time on a summer afternoon.

Who acts: bored girl, creatures, tongue, girl · What happens: look back, follow, grow, shrink, cry, meet · To what, where: White Rabbit, hole, end, pool, creatures, orders · 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 (bored girl, creatures, tongue, girl), 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 grew	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	over	over	ADP	_	6 book	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 book	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 book	amod
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 followed	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 girl	det
9	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 followed	nsubj
11	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Rabbit	det
13	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Rabbit	amod
14	Rabbit	rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 followed	obj
15	down	down	ADP	_	17 hole	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hole	det
17	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 followed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grew	punct
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shrank	cc
21	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grew	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cried	punct
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 shrank	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pool	det
25	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cried	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 tears	case
27	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pool	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 met	punct
29	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 shrank	conj
30	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 met	obj
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 argued	nsubj
32	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 creatures	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 gave	punct
34	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 argued	conj
35	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gave	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 talked	cc
37	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 gave	conj
38	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 talked	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 learned	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 learned	cc
41	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	42 learned	advmod
42	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grew	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 keep	mark
44	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 learned	xcomp
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 temper	nmod:poss
46	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 keep	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 hold	punct
48	to	to	PART	_	49 hold	mark
49	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 keep	conj
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 tongue	nmod:poss
51	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 hold	obj
52	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	55 hurt	advmod
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 hurt	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 hurt	aux
55	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 hold	advcl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 end	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 end	cc
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 end	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 end	det
60	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grew	obl
61	to	to	PART	_	62 stand	mark
62	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 end	acl
63	up	up	ADP	_	62 stand	compound:prt
64	to	to	ADP	_	65 unfairness	case
65	unfairness	unfairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 stand	obl
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 say	cc
67	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 stand	conj
68	«	«	PUNCT	_	69 Nonsense	punct
69	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 say	obj
70	!	!	PUNCT	_	60 end	punct
71	»	»	PUNCT	_	60 end	punct
72	—	-	PUNCT	_	74 waking	punct
73	before	before	SCONJ	_	74 waking	mark
74	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	60 end	advcl
75	to	to	ADP	_	78 time	case
76	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 time	compound
77	-	-	PUNCT	_	78 time	punct
78	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 waking	obl
79	on	on	ADP	_	82 afternoon	case
80	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	82 afternoon	det
81	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 afternoon	compound
82	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 waking	obl
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 grew	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund					over the whole book	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over book=Theme
2	follow	past	a bored girl	a White Rabbit	a hole			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme down hole=Trajectory
3	grow	past				in the end		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in end=Location
4	shrink	past						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	cry speech: express	past		a pool of tears				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Topic
6	meet	past		creatures				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Co-Agent
7	argue speech: disagree	past	creatures					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	give	past	creatures not said here	orders				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
9	talk	past	creatures not said here	nonsense				vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient
10	learn	past					slowly property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	keep	to-infinitive		girl's temper				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Theme
12	hold	to-infinitive		girl's tongue				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
13	hurt	would	tongue					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
14	stand up	to-infinitive					to unfairness	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
15	say speech: assert	infinitive		Nonsense				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nonsense=Topic
16	wake	gerund				afternoon; time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
17	temper		girl					nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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:15.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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