Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 12
She imagines Dinah sending her "on messages" (errands), and thinks they would not let Dinah stay in the house if she began "ordering people about like that".
Who acts: Alice, Dinah, errands · What happens: imagine, send, think, not let, stay, begin · To what, where: Alice, messages, Dinah, house, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Alice, Dinah, errands), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 imagines | nsubj |
| 2 | imagines | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Dinah | Dinah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sending | nsubj |
| 4 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 imagines | ccomp |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sending | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 messages | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 messages | case |
| 8 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sending | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 messages | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 errands | punct |
| 11 | errands | errand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 messages | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 errands | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thinks | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thinks | cc |
| 15 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 imagines | conj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 let | advmod |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thinks | ccomp |
| 20 | Dinah | Dinah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stay | obl |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 began | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 began | nsubj |
| 27 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stay | advcl |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 ordering | punct |
| 29 | ordering | order | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 began | xcomp |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 ordering | obj |
| 31 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 ordering | compound:prt |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 that | case |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 ordering | obl |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 ordering | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 imagines | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | present | Alice | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send | gerund | Dinah | Alice | messages | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | Alice not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not let | would | errands = errand | Dinah | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stay | infinitive | Dinah not said here | the house | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 6 | begin a condition, not said to happen | past | Alice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | order about in a quote | gerund | Alice not said here | people | like that | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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:12.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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