Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 13
When Alice timidly says "If you please, sir—", the Rabbit drops the gloves and fan and scurries away into the darkness; Alice picks them up and, "as the hall was very hot", keeps fanning herself.
Who acts: Alice, you, Rabbit, hall · What happens: say, —, drop, scurry away, pick up, be · To what, where: gloves, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you, Rabbit, hall), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 says | advmod |
| 2 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 3 | timidly | timidly | ADV | _ | 4 says | advmod |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 — | punct |
| 6 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 — | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 — | nsubj |
| 8 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 11 — | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 please | punct |
| 10 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 — | compound |
| 11 | — | — | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 — | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drops | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rabbit | det |
| 15 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drops | nsubj |
| 16 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gloves | det |
| 18 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drops | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fan | cc |
| 20 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gloves | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 scurries | cc |
| 22 | scurries | scurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 drops | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 scurries | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 darkness | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 darkness | det |
| 26 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 away | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 picks | punct |
| 28 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 picks | nsubj |
| 29 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 picks | obj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 picks | compound:prt |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 keeps | cc |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 and | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 hot | punct |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 hot | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hall | det |
| 37 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hot | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 hot | cop |
| 39 | very | very | ADV | _ | 40 hot | advmod |
| 40 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 keeps | advcl |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 hot | punct |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hot | punct |
| 43 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 picks | conj |
| 44 | fanning | fan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 keeps | xcomp |
| 45 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 44 fanning | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Alice | timidly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | — a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | drop | present | the Rabbit | the gloves and fan | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Theme | ||||
| 4 | scurry away | present | the Rabbit not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pick up | present | Alice | gloves = glove | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | the hall | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | keep | present | Alice not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | fan | gerund | Alice not said here | Alice | 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:13.
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 ×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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