Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 19
The door opens inwards and Alice's elbow is pressed against it, so the Rabbit cannot open it.
Who acts: door, Rabbit · What happens: open, press, not open · To what, where: elbow, door
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 (door, Rabbit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opens | nsubj |
| 3 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | inwards | inwards | ADV | _ | 3 opens | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pressed | cc |
| 6 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Alice | case |
| 8 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pressed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pressed | aux:pass |
| 10 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 opens | conj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pressed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 open | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 open | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Rabbit | det |
| 16 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 open | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 open | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 open | advmod |
| 19 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 opens | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 open | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | the door | inwards property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | press | present · passive | Alice's elbow | against door | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not open | can | the Rabbit | door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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:19.
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): no change. 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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