Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 20
Alice is now "about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit", yet she "trembled till she shook the house" when she hears him coming, forgetting she has no reason to be afraid.
Who acts: Alice, Rabbit · What happens: be, tremble, shook, hear, come, forget · To what, where: house, Rabbit, reason · 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, 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 large | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 large | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 large | advmod |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 large | punct |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 thousand | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thousand | det |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 large | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 large | advmod |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Rabbit | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Rabbit | det |
| 13 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 large | obl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 large | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trembled | punct |
| 16 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 19 trembled | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 trembled | nsubj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 trembled | punct |
| 19 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 large | conj |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 shook | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shook | nsubj |
| 22 | shook | shook | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 trembled | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shook | obj |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 house | punct |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 hears | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hears | nsubj |
| 28 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 trembled | advcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hears | obj |
| 30 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 hears | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 forgetting | punct |
| 32 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 trembled | advcl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 has | nsubj |
| 34 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 forgetting | ccomp |
| 35 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 reason | det |
| 36 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 has | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 afraid | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 afraid | cop |
| 39 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 reason | acl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 large | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Alice | now; time | as the Rabbit; large property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tremble in a quote | past | Alice | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shook in a quote | past | Alice | the house | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | present | Alice | Rabbit | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | gerund | Rabbit not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | forget | gerund | Alice not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | have | present | Alice | no reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 8 | is | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | no reason not said here | afraid property | tree rules |
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:20.
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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.
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