Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 9

Her foot slips and "splash! she was up to her chin in salt water"; she first thinks it is the sea and that she can "go back by railway".

Who acts: foot, key · What happens: slip, splash, be up, think, be, go back · To what, where: sea · 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 (foot, key), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 foot	nmod:poss
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slips	nsubj
3	slips	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 splash	cc
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 splash	punct
6	splash	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slips	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 splash	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 splash	ccomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 was	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 chin	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 chin	nmod:poss
13	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 water	compound
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chin	nmod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 water	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 thinks	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thinks	nsubj
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 thinks	advmod
21	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slips	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sea	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sea	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sea	det
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thinks	ccomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 go	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 go	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sea	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 railway	case
34	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slips	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slip	present	Alice's foot			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	splash in a quote	present	Alice's foot not said here			tree rules
3	be up in a quote	past	foot		to Alice's chin in salt water	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	present	foot		first property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	key	the sea		tree rules
6	go back in a quote	can	foot		by railway	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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:9.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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