Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 11
Alice whispers "C and D" for cats and dogs, so as not to upset the Mouse.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: whisper, not upset · To what, where: C, Mouse
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» 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), 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 | 2 whispers | nsubj |
| 2 | whispers | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 C | punct |
| 4 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 whispers | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 D | cc |
| 6 | D | D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 C | conj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 C | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 cats | case |
| 9 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 whispers | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dogs | cc |
| 11 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cats | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 upset | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 17 upset | mark |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 upset | mark |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 upset | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 upset | mark |
| 17 | upset | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 whispers | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Mouse | det |
| 19 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 upset | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whispers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | present | Alice | C and D | for cats and dogs | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Topic | |||
| 2 | not upset | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | the Mouse | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mouse=Experiencer |
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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:11.
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): 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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