Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 32

She wakes on the bank, her head in her sister's lap; the «cards» were dead leaves fluttering down from the trees onto her face.

Who acts: Alice, cards, dead leaves · What happens: wake, be, flutter down · To what, where: bank, dead leaves, trees

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, cards, dead leaves), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wakes	nsubj
2	wakes	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 bank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bank	det
5	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wakes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 head	punct
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bank	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 lap	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sister	nmod:poss
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lap	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 sister	case
13	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wakes	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 leaves	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cards	det
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 cards	punct
17	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 leaves	nsubj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 cards	punct
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 leaves	cop
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leaves	amod
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wakes	parataxis
22	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 leaves	acl
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 fluttering	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 trees	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trees	det
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fluttering	obl
27	onto	onto	ADP	_	29 face	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 face	nmod:poss
29	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fluttering	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wakes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wake	present	Alice		the bank and Alice's head	in Alice's sister's lap	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	the cards	dead leaves			tree rules
3	flutter down	gerund	dead leaves not said here		the trees	onto Alice's face; down property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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:32.

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. 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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