Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 5
The Dodo points at Alice: "Why, she, of course" must give the prizes, and the party crowd round her shouting "Prizes!
Who acts: Dodo, Alice, party crowd · What happens: point, give, shouting · To what, where: Alice, prizes
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 (Dodo, Alice, party crowd), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dodo | det |
| 2 | Dodo | Dodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 points | nsubj |
| 3 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Alice | case |
| 5 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 points | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 points | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Why | punct |
| 8 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 give | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 she | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 16 give | advmod |
| 13 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 of | fixed |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 of | punct |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 points | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prizes | det |
| 18 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 give | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 crowd | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 crowd | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crowd | det |
| 22 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crowd | compound |
| 23 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | conj |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 shouting | obl |
| 26 | shouting | shouting | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 crowd | acl |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Prizes | punct |
| 28 | Prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 shouting | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 points | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | present | the Dodo | Alice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | must | Alice | the prizes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shouting | gerund | the party crowd not said here | Prizes | round Alice | tree rules |
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:5.
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 ×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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