Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 16
She thinks "It was much pleasanter at home", but also "it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!", and says "There ought to be a book written about me".
Who acts: Alice, head, you, book · What happens: think, be, know, say, write, sort · To what, where: home, sort, book, life · 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, head, you, book), 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 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasanter | punct |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pleasanter | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleasanter | cop |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 pleasanter | advmod |
| 7 | pleasanter | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pleasanter | obl |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasanter | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 curious | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 curious | cc |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 curious | advmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 curious | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 curious | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 curious | cop |
| 17 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 18 curious | advmod |
| 18 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pleasanter | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 curious | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 sort | det |
| 24 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 know | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sort | nmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 curious | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasanter | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 says | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 says | cc |
| 31 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinks | conj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 ought | punct |
| 33 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 book | expl |
| 34 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 says | ccomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 be | mark |
| 36 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 ought | xcomp |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 book | det |
| 38 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 be | nsubj |
| 39 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 book | acl |
| 40 | about | about | ADP | _ | 41 me | case |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 written | obl |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 ought | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Alice | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | head | home | pleasant property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | head | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | you | this sort of life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | Alice not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | be in a quote | to-infinitive | a book | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | write in a quote | participle | a book not said here | about Alice | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about i=Topic | ||||
| 8 | sort in a quote | life | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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:16.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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