Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 18
Alice then praises a farmer's terrier that "kills all the rats" (the farmer says it is "worth a hundred pounds"), and the Mouse swims away making "quite a commotion" (a lot of noisy fuss).
Who acts: Alice, terrier, farmer, Mouse · What happens: praise, kill, say, be, swim away, make · To what, where: terrier, rats, commotion · 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, terrier, farmer, Mouse), 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 | 3 praises | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 praises | advmod |
| 3 | praises | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 farmer | det |
| 5 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 terrier | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 farmer | case |
| 7 | terrier | terrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 praises | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 kills | nsubj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 kills | punct |
| 10 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 terrier | acl:relcl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 rats | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rats | det |
| 13 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kills | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 kills | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 farmer | det |
| 17 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 says | nsubj |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 praises | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 worth | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 worth | cop |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 worth | punct |
| 22 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 says | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pounds | det |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pounds | nummod |
| 25 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 worth | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 worth | punct |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 swims | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 swims | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Mouse | det |
| 31 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 swims | nsubj |
| 32 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 praises | conj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 swims | advmod |
| 34 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 swims | advcl |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 commotion | punct |
| 36 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 commotion | det:predet |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 commotion | det |
| 38 | commotion | commotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 making | obj |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 commotion | punct |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 lot | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 lot | det |
| 42 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 commotion | appos |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 fuss | case |
| 44 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 fuss | amod |
| 45 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lot | nmod |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 lot | punct |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 praises | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator, act=narrate, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | present | Alice | a farmer's terrier | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent terrier=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill in a quote | present | a farmer's terrier | all rats | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the farmer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | farmer | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | swim away | present | the Mouse | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | gerund | the Mouse not said here | quite commotion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset commotion=Product |
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:18.
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, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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