Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 0
The White Rabbit comes back hunting for his lost fan and gloves, mistakes Alice for his housemaid Mary Ann, and sends her running home to fetch them; she is too startled to argue.
Who acts: White Rabbit, Alice · What happens: come back, hunt, lose, mistake, send, run · To what, where: Alice, gloves
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» 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 (White Rabbit, Alice), 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 | 3 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Rabbit | amod |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 comes | advmod |
| 6 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 comes | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 fan | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fan | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fan | amod |
| 10 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunting | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gloves | cc |
| 12 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fan | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mistakes | punct |
| 14 | mistakes | mistake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comes | conj |
| 15 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mistakes | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 housemaid | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 housemaid | nmod:poss |
| 18 | housemaid | housemaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mistakes | obl |
| 19 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 housemaid | appos |
| 20 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Mary | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sends | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sends | cc |
| 23 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comes | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 running | nsubj |
| 25 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 sends | ccomp |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 running | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 fetch | mark |
| 28 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 running | xcomp |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fetch | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 startled | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 startled | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 startled | cop |
| 33 | too | too | ADV | _ | 34 startled | advmod |
| 34 | startled | startle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 comes | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 argue | mark |
| 36 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 startled | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present | the White Rabbit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | the White Rabbit not said here | for Rabbit's lost fan and gloves | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for fan=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | mistake | present | the White Rabbit not said here | Alice | for Rabbit's housemaid | tree rules | |||
| 5 | send | present | the White Rabbit not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | run | gerund | Alice | home property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | fetch | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | gloves = glove | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | present · passive | Alice | startle property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | argue speech: disagree | to-infinitive | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:0.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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