Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 14
In printed copies of the book the tale winds down the page in the shape of a tail, getting smaller.
Who acts: tale · What happens: print, wind down, get, copy · To what, where: page, printed copies, book
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 (tale), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 copies | case |
| 2 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 copies | amod | |
| 3 | copies | copy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 winds | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 book | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 copies | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tale | det |
| 8 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 winds | nsubj |
| 9 | winds | wind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 page | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 page | det |
| 12 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 winds | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 shape | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shape | det |
| 15 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 winds | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tail | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tail | det |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shape | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 getting | punct |
| 20 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 winds | advcl |
| 21 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 getting | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 winds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||||
| 2 | wind down | present | the tale | the page | printed copies of the book | in the shape of a tail | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent page=Theme in copy=Source in shape=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | get | gerund | the tale not said here | small property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | copy | the book | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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