Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 25
«You never had fits, my dear?» «Never!» says the Queen, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard; Bill uses the ink trickling down his face to write again.
Who acts: You, Queen, Bill, ink · What happens: not have, say, throw, use, trickle down, write · To what, where: fits, inkstand, Lizard, ink, face · 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 (You, Queen, Bill, ink), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fits | fit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dear | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | parataxis |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 » | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 dear | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 » | punct |
| 12 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 » | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 » | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 » | punct |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Queen | det |
| 17 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 throwing | punct |
| 19 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 says | advcl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 inkstand | det |
| 21 | inkstand | inkstand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 throwing | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Lizard | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Lizard | det |
| 24 | Lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 throwing | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 uses | punct |
| 26 | Bill | Bill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 uses | nsubj |
| 27 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 says | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ink | det |
| 29 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 uses | obj |
| 30 | trickling | trickle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 ink | acl |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 trickling | compound:prt |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 face | nmod:poss |
| 33 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 trickling | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 write | mark |
| 35 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 trickling | advcl |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 write | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | past | You | fits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | present | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | throw | gerund | the Queen not said here | a inkstand | the Lizard | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent inkstand=Theme at lizard=Destination | |||
| 4 | use | present | Bill | the ink | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ink=Patient | ||||
| 5 | trickle down | gerund | the ink not said here | Bill's face | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Source | ||||
| 6 | write | to-infinitive | the ink not said here | again | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:25.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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