Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 13

Asked how she is getting on, Alice says "As wet as ever", "it doesn't seem to dry me at all".

Who acts: Alice, Lory, it · What happens: ask, get on, say, not seem, dry · To what, where: Alice, all · 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, it), 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	Asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 says	advcl
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 getting	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 getting	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	aux
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Asked	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 getting	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wet	punct
11	As	as	ADV	_	12 wet	advmod
12	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 says	ccomp
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 ever	case
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 wet	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wet	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Asked	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 seem	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seem	nsubj
19	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 seem	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 seem	advmod
21	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 says	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 dry	mark
23	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 seem	xcomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 dry	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 all	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 dry	obl
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 seem	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Asked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Alice not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get on	present · progressive	Lory			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	present	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not seem in a quote	present · do-support	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	dry in a quote	to-infinitive		Alice	all	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result

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:13.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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