Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 20
In the end she bursts into tears: "I do wish they would put their heads down!
Who acts: Alice, people, tears · What happens: burst, wish, put down · To what, where: end, heads · 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, people, tears), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bursts | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bursts | nsubj |
| 5 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 tears | case |
| 7 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bursts | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 bursts | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wish | aux |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bursts | ccomp |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | aux |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | ccomp |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heads | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 put | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 put | advmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 bursts | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- express
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=express
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | present | Alice | in the end | into tears | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present · do-support | people | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put down in a quote | would | tears = tear | tears's heads | down property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
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:20.
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): R7-rel-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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