Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 8
The little door is shut again and the golden key lies on the glass table as before, so "things are worse than ever".
Who acts: golden key, things · What happens: shut, lie, be · To what, where: little door, glass table
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 (golden key, things), 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 | 3 door | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 door | amod |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shut | aux:pass |
| 5 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 shut | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lies | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 key | det |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 key | amod |
| 10 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lies | nsubj |
| 11 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shut | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 table | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 table | det |
| 14 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 table | compound |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lies | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 before | case |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 shut | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 worse | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 worse | advmod |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 worse | punct |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 worse | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 worse | cop |
| 23 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 shut | parataxis |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 ever | case |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 worse | obl |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 worse | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | present · passive | the little door | again | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | the golden key | the glass table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | things | bad property | tree rules |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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