Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 6
Measuring herself by the table she is about two feet high and still shrinking; the fan is the cause, and she drops it "just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether".
Who acts: Alice, fan · What happens: measure, be, shrink, drop, avoid, shrink away · To what, where: Alice, cause
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, fan), 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 | Measuring | measure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Measuring | obj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 table | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 table | det |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Measuring | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 high | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 high | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 two | advmod |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 feet | nummod |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 high | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Measuring | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shrinking | cc |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 shrinking | advmod |
| 14 | shrinking | shrink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 high | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 cause | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fan | det |
| 17 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cause | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 cause | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cause | det |
| 20 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Measuring | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drops | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drops | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 drops | nsubj |
| 24 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Measuring | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 drops | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 drops | punct |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 29 time | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drops | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 avoid | mark |
| 31 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 time | acl |
| 32 | shrinking | shrink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 avoid | xcomp |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 shrinking | advmod |
| 34 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 32 shrinking | advmod |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 shrinking | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Measuring | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | gerund | Alice | by the table | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme herself=Value | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Alice | two feet obl:unmarked; high property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shrink | gerund | Alice not said here | still | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the fan | the cause | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drop | present | Alice | cause | time | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | avoid in a quote | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | shrink away in a quote | gerund | Alice not said here | altogether, away property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:6.
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, 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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