Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 3

Feeling lonely, Alice wishes her cat Dinah were there and proudly says Dinah eats little birds, and at once every bird finds an excuse to hurry home.

Who acts: Alice, cat, Dinah, bird · What happens: feel, wish, be, say, eat, find · To what, where: little birds, excuse · 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, cat, Dinah, bird), 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	Feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 wishes	advcl
2	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Feeling	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Feeling	punct
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wishes	nsubj
5	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cat	nmod:poss
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 there	nsubj
8	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cat	appos
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 there	cop
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 wishes	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
12	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	13 says	advmod
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wishes	conj
14	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 eats	nsubj
15	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 says	ccomp
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 birds	amod
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eats	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 finds	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 finds	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	_	24 finds	obl
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 bird	det
23	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 finds	nsubj
24	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wishes	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 excuse	det
26	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 finds	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 hurry	mark
28	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 excuse	acl
29	home	home	ADV	_	28 hurry	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wishes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund	Alice not said here		lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	wish	present	Alice			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is	past	Alice's cat		there property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	Alice not said here		proudly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	eat	present	Dinah	little birds		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
6	find	present	every bird	a excuse		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent excuse=Theme at once=Asset
7	hurry	to-infinitive	every bird not said here	a excuse not said here	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: 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:3.

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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