Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 16
She is sure she is not Ada, whose hair "goes in such long ringlets" (long hanging curls), and fears being Mabel, who "knows such a very little".
Who acts: Alice, hair, Mabel · What happens: be, not be, go, hang, fear, know · To what, where: Ada, such long ringlets, curls, Mabel, little
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, hair, Mabel), 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 | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Ada | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Ada | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 Ada | advmod |
| 7 | Ada | ada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ada | punct |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 hair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 goes | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 goes | punct |
| 12 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Ada | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ringlets | case |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ringlets | amod |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ringlets | amod |
| 16 | ringlets | ringlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 goes | obl |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 goes | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 hanging | punct |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 hanging | advmod |
| 20 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 ringlets | appos |
| 21 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hanging | obj |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 curls | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fears | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fears | cc |
| 25 | fears | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | conj |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 Mabel | cop |
| 27 | Mabel | Mabel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 fears | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 knows | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 knows | nsubj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 knows | punct |
| 31 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Mabel | acl:relcl |
| 32 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 little | det:predet |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 little | det |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 little | advmod |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 knows | obj |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 knows | punct |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Alice | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | Alice | Ada | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | hair | such long ringlets | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ringlet=Location | ||||
| 4 | hang | gerund | curls | long property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curl=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fear | present | Alice not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a | gerund | Alice not said here | Mabel | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | know in a quote | present | Mabel | such little | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus |
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:16.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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