Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 0

Alice and the animals climb out of the pool onto the bank, soaking wet, cross and uncomfortable, and argue about how to get dry; Alice even has a long squabble with a Lory who won't say how old it is.

Who acts: Alice, Lory, squabble · What happens: climb, soak, argue, get, have, not say · To what, where: pool, long squabble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» 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, Lory, squabble), 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	5 climb	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 animals	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Alice	conj
5	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 pool	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 pool	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pool	det
9	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climb	obl
10	onto	onto	ADP	_	12 bank	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bank	det
12	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climb	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 soaking	punct
14	soaking	soak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 climb	advcl
15	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 soaking	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cross	punct
17	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wet	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 uncomfortable	cc
19	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wet	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 argue	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 argue	cc
22	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 climb	conj
23	about	about	SCONJ	_	26 get	mark
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 get	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 get	mark
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 argue	advcl
27	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 get	xcomp
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 has	punct
29	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 has	nsubj
30	even	even	ADV	_	31 has	advmod
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 climb	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 squabble	det
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 squabble	amod
34	squabble	squabble	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 Lory	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 Lory	det
37	Lory	lory	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 squabble	nmod
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 say	nsubj
39	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 say	aux
40	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 say	advmod
41	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 Lory	acl:relcl
42	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 old	advmod
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 say	ccomp
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 old	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 old	cop
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climb	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	present	Alice and the animals		the pool	onto the bank	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out pool=Initial_Location onto bank=Destination
2	soak	gerund	Alice and the animals not said here			wet property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	argue speech: disagree	present	Alice and the animals not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	to-infinitive	Alice and the animals not said here			dry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	present	Alice	a long squabble		with a Lory	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squabble=Patient
6	not say speech: assert	future	a Lory				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	squabble			old 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:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:0.

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, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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