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

Her head bumps the roof of the hall, she is more than nine feet tall, and now she can only peep at the garden with one eye, so she cries and cries until a pool of tears spreads half down the hall.

Who acts: head, pool · What happens: bump, be, peep, cry, spread · To what, where: roof, half

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 (head, pool), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bumps	nsubj
3	bumps	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roof	det
5	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bumps	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 hall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hall	det
8	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roof	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 more	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 more	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 more	cop
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 bumps	parataxis
13	than	than	ADP	_	12 more	fixed
14	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 feet	nummod
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tall	obl:unmarked
16	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 more	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 peep	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 peep	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 peep	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 peep	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 peep	aux
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 peep	advmod
23	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bumps	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 garden	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 garden	det
26	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 peep	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 eye	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 eye	nummod
29	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 peep	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cries	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 cries	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cries	nsubj
33	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bumps	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cries	cc
35	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 cries	conj
36	until	until	SCONJ	_	41 spreads	mark
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 pool	det
38	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 spreads	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 tears	case
40	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 pool	nmod
41	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bumps	conj
42	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	41 spreads	obj
43	down	down	ADP	_	45 hall	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 hall	det
45	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 spreads	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bumps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bump	present	Alice's head	the roof of the hall			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient
2	is	present	head			more property	tree rules
3	peep	can	head		now	with one eye; at the garden	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at garden=Theme
4	cry speech: express	present	head				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cry speech: express	present	head not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	spread	present	a pool of tears	half		down the hall	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location half=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:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:1.

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 ×4, R7-rel-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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