Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 18

Alice says Dinah will "eat a little bird as soon as look at it", and the birds leave on "various pretexts" (made-up excuses).

Who acts: Alice, Dinah, birds · What happens: say, eat, leave, make up · To what, where: little bird, various pretexts · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Dinah, birds), 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 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eat	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bird	amod
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 soon	advmod
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 eat	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 look	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 leave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 leave	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 birds	det
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 leave	nsubj
21	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 pretexts	case
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 pretexts	punct
24	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pretexts	amod
25	pretexts	pretext	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 leave	obl
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 pretexts	punct
27	(	(	PUNCT	_	31 excuses	punct
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 excuses	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 up	punct
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 made	compound:prt
31	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pretexts	appos
32	)	)	PUNCT	_	31 excuses	punct
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat in a quote	future	Dinah	a little bird		look obl; soon property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
3	leave	present	the birds		various pretexts		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on pretext=Location
4	make up	participle					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:18.

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): R5-strong ×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.

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