Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 6

The party on the bank is "dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable": birds with draggled (wet and dirty) feathers and animals with fur clinging to them.

Who acts: party, fur · What happens: drip, draggl, cling · To what, where: animals

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 (party, fur), 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	2 party	det
2	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dripping	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 bank	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bank	det
5	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 party	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dripping	aux
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dripping	punct
8	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dripping	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cross	punct
11	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wet	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 uncomfortable	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 uncomfortable	cc
14	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wet	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 uncomfortable	punct
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 birds	punct
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 party	appos
18	with	with	ADP	_	25 feathers	case
19	draggled	draggl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 feathers	amod
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 wet	punct
21	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 draggled	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dirty	cc
23	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wet	conj
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 wet	punct
25	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 birds	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 animals	cc
27	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 birds	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 fur	case
29	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 animals	nmod
30	clinging	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 fur	acl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 clinging	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dripping	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	drip in a quote	present · progressive	the party on the bank		wet property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	draggl	participle				tree rules
3	cling	gerund	fur not said here	animals = animal		vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to they=Co-Theme

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: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): 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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