Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 9

Alice thinks it "very absurd" (silly), but they look so grave (serious) that she dares not laugh, so she just bows.

Who acts: Alice, words · What happens: think, look, dare, not laugh, bow · To what, where: thimble

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, words), 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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	obj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 absurd	punct
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 absurd	advmod
6	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 absurd	punct
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 silly	punct
9	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	parataxis
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 silly	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 look	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	nsubj
14	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 grave	advmod
16	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 look	xcomp
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 serious	punct
18	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grave	conj
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 serious	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 dares	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dares	nsubj
22	dares	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 grave	advcl
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 laugh	advmod
24	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 dares	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bows	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 bows	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bows	nsubj
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 bows	advmod
29	bows	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Alice	thimble		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	look	present	words = word		grave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	dare	present	Alice			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not laugh	infinitive	Alice not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bow	present	Alice			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.

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. 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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