Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 2
Alice, who has grown so large she isn't a bit afraid, offers sixpence to anyone who can explain them: «I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.»
Who acts: Alice, verses, atom · What happens: grow, not be, offer, explain, not believe, be · To what, where: sixpence, anyone, verses · 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 (Alice, verses, atom), 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 | 15 offers | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 grown | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | aux |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Alice | acl:relcl |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 large | advmod |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grown | xcomp |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 afraid | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 afraid | cop |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 afraid | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bit | det |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 afraid | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grown | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 offers | punct |
| 15 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offers | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 anyone | case |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 offers | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 explain | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 explain | aux |
| 21 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 explain | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 believe | punct |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 believe | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 believe | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 believe | aux |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 believe | advmod |
| 28 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 afraid | parataxis |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 's | expl |
| 30 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 believe | ccomp |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 atom | det |
| 32 | atom | atom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 's | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 meaning | case |
| 34 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 atom | nmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 meaning | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 offers | punct |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 offers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present · perfect | Alice | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | Alice | a bit obl:unmarked; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | offer | present | Alice | sixpence | anyone | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent sixpence=Theme to anyone=Goal | |||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | can | verses = verse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not believe in a quote | present · do-support | verses = verse | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | be in a quote | present | a atom of meaning in meaning | there | vn exist-47.1 «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:2.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/2/