Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 18

The poem she tries to recite comes out as "How doth the little crocodile", about a crocodile that smiles as it welcomes little fishes into its jaws; "How doth" is old English for "how does".

Who acts: poem, crocodile, doth · What happens: try, recite, come out, smile, welcome, be · To what, where: poem, little fishes, jaws, old English

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 (poem, crocodile, doth), 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	2 poem	det
2	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comes	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tries	nsubj
4	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 poem	acl:relcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 recite	mark
6	recite	recite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tries	xcomp
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 comes	compound:prt
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 doth	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 doth	punct
11	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 doth	advmod
12	doth	doth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 comes	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 crocodile	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 crocodile	amod
15	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doth	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 doth	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 crocodile	punct
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 crocodile	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 crocodile	det
20	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doth	conj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 smiles	nsubj
22	smiles	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 crocodile	acl:relcl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 welcomes	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 welcomes	nsubj
25	welcomes	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 smiles	advcl
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fishes	amod
27	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 welcomes	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 jaws	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 jaws	nmod:poss
30	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 welcomes	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 doth	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 doth	punct
33	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 doth	advmod
34	doth	doth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 English	nsubj
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 doth	punct
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 English	cop
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 English	amod
38	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 comes	parataxis
39	for	for	ADP	_	42 does	case
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 does	punct
41	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	42 does	advmod
42	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 English	obl
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 does	punct
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 comes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	present	poem	the poem not said here			tree rules
2	recite not said to happen	to-infinitive	poem not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come out	present	the poem			as doth and the little crocodile and a crocodile	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	smile	present	a crocodile				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	welcome	present	crocodile	little fishes	crocodile's jaws		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
6	is a	present	doth	old English			tree rules
7	do in a quote	present					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:18.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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