Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 2
The White Rabbit comes back, dressed up, with white kid gloves and a fan, muttering about the Duchess; when giant Alice says "If you please, sir", he drops everything and runs off in fright.
Who acts: White Rabbit, giant Alice, you, Rabbit · What happens: come back, dress up, mutter, say, sir, drop · To what, where: everything, fright · 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 (White Rabbit, giant Alice, you, Rabbit), 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 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 comes | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dressed | punct |
| 7 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 comes | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 dressed | compound:prt |
| 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 | 7 dressed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fan | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fan | det |
| 16 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gloves | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 muttering | punct |
| 18 | muttering | mutter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 comes | advcl |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 Duchess | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Duchess | det |
| 21 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 muttering | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 says | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 says | advmod |
| 24 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Alice | amod |
| 25 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 says | nsubj |
| 26 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 drops | advcl |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 sir | punct |
| 28 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 sir | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 sir | nsubj |
| 30 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 32 sir | discourse |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 please | punct |
| 32 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 says | ccomp |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 sir | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 drops | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 drops | nsubj |
| 36 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comes | conj |
| 37 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 36 drops | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 runs | cc |
| 39 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 drops | conj |
| 40 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 runs | compound:prt |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 fright | case |
| 42 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 runs | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present | the White Rabbit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dress up | participle | the White Rabbit not said here | with white kid gloves and a fan | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mutter speech: assert | gerund | the White Rabbit not said here | about the Duchess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about duchess=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | giant Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sir a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | drop | present | Rabbit | everything | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 7 | run off | present | Rabbit not said here | fright | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Trajectory |
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:2.
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, 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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