Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 11

She sheds "gallons of tears", making a pool about four inches deep that reaches half down the hall.

Who acts: Alice, pool · What happens: shed, make, reach · To what, where: gallons, pool, 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 (Alice, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sheds	nsubj
2	sheds	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gallons	punct
4	gallons	gallon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sheds	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 tears	case
6	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gallons	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gallons	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 making	punct
9	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sheds	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pool	det
11	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 making	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 inches	case
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 inches	nummod
14	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 deep	obl:unmarked
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 making	xcomp
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 reaches	nsubj
17	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pool	acl:relcl
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 reaches	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	21 hall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hall	det
21	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reaches	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sheds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shed	present	Alice	gallons of tears		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gallon=Source
2	make	gerund	Alice not said here	a pool	deep property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pool=Product
3	reach	present	a pool	half	down the hall	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent 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:11.

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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