Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 20

Alice feels "very lonely and low-spirited" (sad) and cries, then hears pattering footsteps and hopes the Mouse has changed its mind.

Who acts: Alice, Mouse, bed · What happens: feel, cry, hear, patter, hope, change · To what, where: pattering footsteps, mind · 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, Mouse, bed), 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 feels	nsubj
2	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lonely	punct
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 lonely	advmod
5	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feels	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spirited	cc
7	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spirited	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 low	punct
9	spirited	spirited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lonely	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lonely	punct
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 sad	punct
12	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feels	parataxis
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 sad	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cries	cc
15	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 feels	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hears	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 hears	advmod
18	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 feels	conj
19	pattering	patter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 footsteps	amod
20	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hears	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hopes	cc
22	hopes	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hears	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Mouse	det
24	Mouse	mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 changed	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 changed	aux
26	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 hopes	ccomp
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mind	nmod:poss
28	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 changed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 feels	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Alice			lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	present	Alice not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	present	Alice not said here	pattering footsteps	then		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus
4	patter	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hope	present	Alice not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	change	present · perfect	the Mouse	bed's mind			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
7	mind		bed				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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:20.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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