Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 6
Alice pulls out a box of comfits (sugar-coated sweets) that the salt water had not got into, and there is "exactly one a-piece, all round"; "a-piece" means each.
Who acts: Alice, salt water, one piece, piece · What happens: pull out, coat, not get, be, mean · To what, where: box, comfits, each
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, salt water, one piece, piece), 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 pulls | nsubj |
| 2 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 pulls | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulls | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 comfits | case |
| 7 | comfits | comfit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 box | nmod |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 sweets | punct |
| 9 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coated | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sugar | punct |
| 11 | coated | coat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sweets | amod |
| 12 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 comfits | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 sweets | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 got | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 16 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 water | compound |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 got | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 got | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 got | advmod |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 comfits | acl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 got | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 is | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 is | cc |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 is | expl |
| 25 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulls | conj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 piece | punct |
| 27 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 28 one | advmod |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 piece | nummod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 piece | det |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 a | punct |
| 31 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 is | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 round | punct |
| 33 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 round | advmod |
| 34 | round | round | ADV | _ | 31 piece | advmod |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 piece | punct |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 means | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 piece | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 piece | det |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 a | punct |
| 40 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 means | nsubj |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 piece | punct |
| 42 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pulls | parataxis |
| 43 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 means | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | present | Alice | a box of comfits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | coat | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not get | past · perfect | the salt water | comfits | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | be | present | a one piece | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | a piece | each | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Topic |
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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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