Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 10
The little house has a bright brass plate on the door reading "W.
Who acts: little house, bright brass plate · What happens: have, read · To what, where: bright brass plate, door, W.
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 (little house, bright brass plate), 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 house | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 house | amod |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 plate | det |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plate | amod |
| 7 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plate | compound |
| 8 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plate | nmod |
| 12 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 plate | acl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 reading | punct |
| 14 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 reading | obj |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the little house | a bright brass plate | the door | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient | |||
| 2 | read | gerund | a bright brass plate not said here | W. | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w.=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:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:10.
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): 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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