Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 0

The cake works: Alice shoots up like a pulled-out telescope until her feet seem miles away, and she jokes about posting them presents for Christmas.

Who acts: cake, Alice, feet · What happens: work, shoot up, pull, seem, joke, post · To what, where: presents, feet

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» 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 (cake, Alice, feet), 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 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	nsubj
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 shoots	punct
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shoots	nsubj
6	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 works	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 shoots	compound:prt
8	like	like	ADP	_	13 telescope	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 telescope	det
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 telescope	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 pulled	punct
12	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pulled	compound
13	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shoots	obl
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 seem	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feet	nmod:poss
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seem	nsubj
17	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shoots	advcl
18	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 away	obl
19	away	away	ADV	_	17 seem	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 jokes	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 jokes	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 jokes	nsubj
23	jokes	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shoots	conj
24	about	about	SCONJ	_	25 posting	mark
25	posting	post	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 jokes	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 posting	iobj
27	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 posting	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 Christmas	case
29	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 presents	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	work	present	the cake				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shoot up	present	Alice			like a pulled telescope	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pull	participle					vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	present	Alice's feet			away property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	joke speech: other	present	Alice				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	post	gerund	Alice not said here	presents	feet = foot	for Christmas	tree rules

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:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:0.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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