Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 37

The sister pictures Alice as a grown woman who keeps «the simple and loving heart of her childhood» and tells other children strange tales, «perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago».

Who acts: sister, grown woman, strange tales · What happens: picture, grow, keep, tell, dream · To what, where: Alice, simple heart, other children, Wonderland · 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, grown woman, strange tales), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sister	det
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pictures	nsubj
3	pictures	picture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pictures	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 woman	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pictures	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 keeps	nsubj
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	acl:relcl
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 heart	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heart	det
13	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heart	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 loving	cc
15	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 simple	conj
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keeps	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 childhood	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 childhood	nmod:poss
19	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heart	nmod
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 heart	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tells	cc
22	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 keeps	conj
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 children	amod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tells	iobj
25	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tales	amod
26	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tells	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pictures	punct
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 dream	punct
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	33 dream	advmod
30	even	even	ADV	_	33 dream	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 dream	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dream	det
33	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tales	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Wonderland	case
35	Wonderland	wonderland	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 dream	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 long	case
37	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 dream	advmod
38	ago	ago	ADV	_	37 long	advmod
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 dream	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pictures	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	picture	present	the sister	Alice		as a grown woman	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent alice=Theme as woman=Attribute
2	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	present	a grown woman	the simple heart of sister's childhood			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	present	strange tales and the dream of Wonderland		other children		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
5	dream in a quote			Wonderland			nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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:37.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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