Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 5
Alice cries "Curiouser and curiouser!", which is not good English (the right form is "more and more curious"), because she is so surprised she forgets how to speak properly.
Who acts: Alice, Curiouser, right form · What happens: cry, not be, be, forget, not speak · To what, where: Curiouser, good English · 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, Curiouser, right form), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cries | nsubj |
| 2 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Curiouser | punct |
| 4 | Curiouser | Curiouser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cries | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 curiouser | cc |
| 6 | curiouser | curious | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 Curiouser | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Curiouser | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Curiouser | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 English | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 English | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 English | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 English | advmod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 English | amod |
| 14 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Curiouser | conj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 curious | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 form | det |
| 17 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 form | amod |
| 18 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 curious | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 curious | cop |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 curious | punct |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 curious | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 curious | cc |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 more | conj |
| 24 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 English | parataxis |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 curious | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 curious | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 surprised | punct |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 32 surprised | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 surprised | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 surprised | cop |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 surprised | advmod |
| 32 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cries | advcl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 forgets | nsubj |
| 34 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 surprised | ccomp |
| 35 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 speak | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 speak | mark |
| 37 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 forgets | xcomp |
| 38 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 37 speak | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cries | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | Alice | Curiouser and good English | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiouser=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | Curiouser and good English | good English | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the right form | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Alice | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | forget | present | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not speak speech: other | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | properly property | vn talk-37.5 «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:5.
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. 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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