Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 14

She drinks because "I know something interesting is sure to happen" "whenever I eat or drink anything".

Who acts: Alice, something · What happens: drink, know, be, happen, eat · To what, where: anything · 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, something), 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 drinks	nsubj
2	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 know	mark
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drinks	advcl
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 sure	nsubj
8	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sure	cop
10	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 know	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 happen	mark
12	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sure	xcomp
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 happen	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 happen	punct
15	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	17 eat	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 eat	nsubj
17	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drinks	advcl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 drink	cc
19	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	conj
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 drink	obj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 anything	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drinks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Alice			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know in a quote	present	Alice			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present	something		sure property	tree rules
4	happen in a quote	to-infinitive	something not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat in a quote	present	Alice			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	drink in a quote	present	Alice not said here	anything		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

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:14.

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 ×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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