Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 15
Before she has drunk half the bottle her head presses against the ceiling; she ends with one arm out of the window and one foot up the chimney.
Who acts: Alice, head · What happens: drink, press, end · To what, where: bottle
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, head), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 drunk | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drunk | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drunk | aux |
| 4 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 presses | advcl |
| 5 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 7 bottle | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottle | det |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drunk | obj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 presses | nsubj |
| 10 | presses | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 ceiling | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ceiling | det |
| 13 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 presses | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 ends | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ends | nsubj |
| 16 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 presses | parataxis |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 arm | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 arm | nummod |
| 19 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ends | obl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 window | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 window | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 window | det |
| 23 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arm | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 foot | cc |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 foot | nummod |
| 26 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 window | conj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 chimney | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chimney | det |
| 29 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 foot | orphan |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 presses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | present · perfect | Alice | half bottle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | press | present | Alice's head | against the ceiling | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against ceiling=Theme | ||||
| 3 | end | present | Alice | with one arm out the window and one foot | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with arm=Subeventuality |
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:15.
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, R7-rel-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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