Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 10
From one trip to the seaside Alice believes every English beach has bathing machines (little huts on wheels that were rolled into the sea for people to change in), children digging with wooden spades, lodging houses and a railway station.
Who acts: Alice, English beach, people, children · What happens: believe, have, roll, change, dig, lodge · To what, where: one trip, bathing machines, wheels, sea, houses · Speech: someone speaks here
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, English beach, people, children), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 trip | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 trip | nummod |
| 3 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 believes | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 seaside | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 seaside | det |
| 6 | seaside | seaside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trip | nmod |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 believes | nsubj |
| 8 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 beach | det |
| 10 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beach | amod |
| 11 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 believes | ccomp |
| 13 | bathing | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 machines | compound |
| 14 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 huts | punct |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 huts | amod |
| 17 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 machines | appos |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 wheels | case |
| 19 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 huts | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 rolled | aux:pass |
| 22 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 wheels | acl:relcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rolled | obl |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 change | mark |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 change | nsubj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 change | mark |
| 29 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 rolled | advcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 children | case |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 in | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 children | punct |
| 33 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 machines | conj |
| 34 | digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 children | acl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 spades | case |
| 36 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 spades | amod |
| 37 | spades | spade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 digging | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lodging | punct |
| 39 | lodging | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 digging | conj |
| 40 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 lodging | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 station | cc |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 station | det |
| 43 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 station | compound |
| 44 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 houses | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 believes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | Alice | one trip to the seaside | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | every English beach | bathing machines and children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Patient | ||||
| 3 | roll | past · passive | wheels | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | change | to-infinitive | people | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | dig | gerund | children not said here | with wooden spades | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with spade=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | lodge | gerund | children not said here | houses and a railway station | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme house=Location |
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:10.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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