Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 3
Fanning herself, Alice wonders whether she has been changed in the night into another girl, tests herself with times tables, geography and a poem, and gets them all wrong.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: fan, wonder, change, test, get · To what, where: Alice, tables · 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), 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 | Fanning | fan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wonders | advcl |
| 2 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Fanning | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonders | punct |
| 4 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wonders | nsubj |
| 5 | wonders | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 changed | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 changed | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 changed | aux:pass |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wonders | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 girl | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tests | punct |
| 18 | tests | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wonders | conj |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 tests | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 tables | case |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tables | compound |
| 22 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tests | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 geography | punct |
| 24 | geography | geography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tables | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 poem | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 poem | det |
| 27 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tables | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gets | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gets | cc |
| 30 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wonders | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gets | obj |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 wrong | det |
| 33 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 gets | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonders | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fan | gerund | Alice not said here | Alice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | present | Alice | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | change | present · perfect · passive | Alice | night | into another girl result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into girl=Result | |||
| 4 | test | present | Alice not said here | Alice | with times tables and geography and a poem | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 5 | get | present | Alice not said here | tables = table | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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