Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 7

She imagines the address: "Alice's Right Foot, Esq., Hearthrug, near the Fender"; "Esq." (Esquire) is a polite title on letters to a gentleman, the hearthrug is the rug in front of the fireplace and the fender is the low metal guard around it.

Who acts: Alice, Esquire, hearthrug, fender · What happens: imagine, be · To what, where: address, polite title, letters, rug, front, low metal guard

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, Esquire, hearthrug, fender), 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 imagines	nsubj
2	imagines	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 address	det
4	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imagines	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Esq	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Foot	punct
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Foot	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Alice	case
9	Right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Foot	amod
10	Foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Esq	compound
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Esq	punct
12	Esq	esq	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Foot	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Foot	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Hearthrug	punct
15	Hearthrug	hearthrug	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Foot	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Fender	punct
17	near	near	ADP	_	19 Fender	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Fender	det
19	Fender	fender	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Foot	appos
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Fender	punct
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 Foot	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Esq	punct
23	Esq	esq	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imagines	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 Esq	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Esq	punct
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 Esquire	punct
27	Esquire	esquire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 title	nsubj
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 Esquire	punct
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 title	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 title	det
31	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 title	amod
32	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 imagines	parataxis
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 letters	case
34	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 title	nmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 gentleman	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 gentleman	det
37	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 letters	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 rug	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hearthrug	det
40	hearthrug	hearthrug	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rug	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 rug	cop
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 rug	det
43	rug	rug	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 title	parataxis
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 front	case
45	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rug	nmod
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 fireplace	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 fireplace	det
48	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 front	nmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 guard	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 fender	det
51	fender	fender	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 guard	nsubj
52	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 guard	cop
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 guard	det
54	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 guard	amod
55	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 guard	compound
56	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rug	conj
57	around	around	ADP	_	58 it	case
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 guard	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 imagines	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	imagine	present	Alice	the address		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot address=Theme
2	is a	present	Esquire	a polite title	letters to a gentleman	tree rules
3	is a	present	the hearthrug	the rug and the low metal guard	front of the fireplace	tree rules
4	is a	present	the fender	the low metal guard	Hearthrug	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.

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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): R6-punct-agree ×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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