Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 17
She jokes "I'm grown up now", because there is "no room to grow up any more here", and wonders if she will never get older: no old age, but lessons for ever; then she answers herself: "How can you learn lessons in here?
Who acts: Alice, room, you · What happens: joke, grow up, be, wonder, not get, answer · To what, where: old age, Alice, lessons · 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, room, you), 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 jokes | nsubj |
| 2 | jokes | joke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 grown | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grown | aux |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 jokes | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 grown | compound:prt |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | _ | 6 grown | advmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 is | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 jokes | advcl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 room | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 room | det |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 is | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 grow | mark |
| 18 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 room | acl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 grow | compound:prt |
| 20 | any | any | ADV | _ | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 here | advmod |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 grow | advmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 here | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wonders | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wonders | cc |
| 26 | wonders | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 jokes | conj |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 get | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 get | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 get | aux |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 get | advmod |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wonders | ccomp |
| 32 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 get | xcomp |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 age | punct |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 age | det |
| 35 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 age | amod |
| 36 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jokes | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lessons | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 lessons | cc |
| 39 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 age | conj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 ever | case |
| 41 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 39 lessons | nmod |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 answers | punct |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 answers | advmod |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 answers | nsubj |
| 45 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 jokes | parataxis |
| 46 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 45 answers | obj |
| 47 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 52 learn | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 learn | punct |
| 49 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 52 learn | advmod |
| 50 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 learn | aux |
| 51 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 learn | nsubj |
| 52 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 answers | ccomp |
| 53 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 learn | obj |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 here | case |
| 55 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 learn | obl |
| 56 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 jokes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | present | Alice | no old age but lessons | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow up in a quote | present · passive | Alice | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | present | no room | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow up in a quote | to-infinitive | no room not said here | here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | present | Alice not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | not get a condition, not said to happen | future | Alice | old property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | answer speech: ask | present | Alice | Alice | then | tree rules | |||
| 8 | learn in a quote | can | you | lessons | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=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:17.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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