Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 12
The White Rabbit returns "splendidly dressed", with white kid gloves (soft gloves made of young goat's leather) and a large fan, worried the Duchess will be "savage" (furious) if kept waiting.
Who acts: White Rabbit, white kid gloves · What happens: return, dress, make, worry, be, keep · To what, where: soft gloves, Duchess, savage
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 (White Rabbit, white kid gloves), 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 | 3 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Rabbit | amod |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returns | nsubj |
| 4 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dressed | punct |
| 6 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 dressed | advmod |
| 7 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 returns | xcomp |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dressed | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gloves | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 gloves | case |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gloves | amod |
| 12 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gloves | compound |
| 13 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returns | obl |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 gloves | punct |
| 15 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gloves | amod |
| 16 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gloves | appos |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 gloves | acl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 leather | case |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 goat | amod |
| 20 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leather | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 goat | case |
| 22 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 gloves | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fan | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fan | det |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fan | amod |
| 27 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gloves | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 worried | punct |
| 29 | worried | worry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gloves | acl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Duchess | det |
| 31 | Duchess | duchess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 worried | obj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 savage | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 savage | cop |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 savage | punct |
| 35 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Duchess | conj |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 savage | punct |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 furious | punct |
| 38 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 savage | amod |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 furious | punct |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 kept | mark |
| 41 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 worried | advcl |
| 42 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 kept | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returns | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | the White Rabbit | with white kid gloves and a large fan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress in a quote | participle | the White Rabbit not said here | splendidly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | soft gloves not said here | of young goat's leather | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | worry | past | white kid gloves and a large fan not said here | the Duchess and savage | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus duchess=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | future | white kid gloves and a large fan not said here | savage | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | keep a condition, not said to happen | participle | white kid gloves and a large fan not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | wait | gerund | white kid gloves and a large fan not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:12.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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