Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 20
The pool has become crowded with "a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet": a Lory is a small bright parrot, an Eaglet is a young eagle, and the Dodo is a big bird that died out long ago.
Who acts: pool, Lory, Eaglet, Dodo, big bird · What happens: become, be, die out · To what, where: small bright parrot, young eagle, big bird
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 (pool, Lory, Eaglet, Dodo), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pool | det |
| 2 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 become | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Duck | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Duck | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Duck | det |
| 9 | Duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crowded | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Dodo | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Dodo | det |
| 12 | Dodo | dodo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Duck | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lory | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Lory | det |
| 15 | Lory | lory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Duck | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Eaglet | cc |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Eaglet | det |
| 18 | Eaglet | eaglet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Lory | conj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Duck | punct |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 parrot | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Lory | det |
| 22 | Lory | lory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 parrot | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 parrot | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 parrot | det |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 parrot | amod |
| 26 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 parrot | amod |
| 27 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 eagle | punct |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Eaglet | det |
| 30 | Eaglet | eaglet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 eagle | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 eagle | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 eagle | det |
| 33 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 eagle | amod |
| 34 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 parrot | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 bird | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 bird | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Dodo | det |
| 38 | Dodo | Dodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 bird | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 bird | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 bird | det |
| 41 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 bird | amod |
| 42 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 eagle | conj |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 died | nsubj |
| 44 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 bird | acl:relcl |
| 45 | out | out | ADV | _ | 44 died | advmod |
| 46 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 47 ago | advmod |
| 47 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 44 died | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 eagle | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present · perfect | the pool | crowded property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a Lory | a small bright parrot and a young eagle and a big bird | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a Eaglet | a young eagle and a big bird | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the Dodo | a big bird | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | die out | past | a big bird | ago, out property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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