Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 4
She fears she has become Mabel, a girl she thinks knows very little, and ends up crying because she is so tired of being all alone: funny, but lonely and sad underneath.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: fear, become, think, know, end up, cry · To what, where: girl, little · 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fears | nsubj |
| 2 | fears | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 become | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 become | aux |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 fears | ccomp |
| 6 | Mabel | Mabel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 become | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 girl | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Mabel | appos |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thinks | nsubj |
| 11 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 girl | acl:relcl |
| 12 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 thinks | ccomp |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 little | advmod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knows | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ends | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ends | cc |
| 17 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fears | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 ends | compound:prt |
| 19 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 ends | xcomp |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 tired | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 tired | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 tired | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 tired | advmod |
| 24 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 crying | advcl |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 alone | mark |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 all | cop |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 alone | advmod |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tired | advcl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 funny | punct |
| 30 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fears | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lonely | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 lonely | cc |
| 33 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 funny | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sad | cc |
| 35 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 lonely | conj |
| 36 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 33 lonely | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fears | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | Alice | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | become | present · perfect | Alice | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | Alice | a girl not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent girl=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | present | little | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | end up | present | Alice not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | gerund | Alice not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | present | Alice | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | gerund | all property | tree rules |
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:4.
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 ×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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