Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 1
She runs to the little door, but it is shut again and the key is back on the table, and then she slips and lands up to her chin in salt water: the pool of her own tears.
Who acts: Alice, door, key · What happens: run, be, slip, land up · To what, where: table, salt water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» 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, door, key), 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 runs | nsubj |
| 2 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 door | amod |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 runs | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shut | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 shut | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 shut | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shut | cop |
| 11 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 runs | conj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 shut | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 table | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 key | det |
| 15 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 table | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 table | cop |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 table | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 table | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 table | det |
| 20 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 runs | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 slips | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 slips | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 slips | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 slips | nsubj |
| 25 | slips | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 runs | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lands | cc |
| 27 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 slips | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 lands | compound:prt |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 chin | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 chin | nmod:poss |
| 31 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lands | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 water | case |
| 33 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 water | compound |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lands | obl |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 pool | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 pool | det |
| 37 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 water | appos |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 tears | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 tears | nmod:poss |
| 40 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 tears | amod |
| 41 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 pool | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | Alice | to the little door result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | present | door | again | shut property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | the key | the table | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | slip | present | Alice | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | land up | present | Alice not said here | salt water | to Alice's chin | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in water=Destination |
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:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:1.
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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