Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 21
Her snatch out of the window brings "a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass"; a cucumber-frame is a low glass box that keeps young plants warm, like a tiny greenhouse.
Who acts: snatch, cucumber frame, low glass box, Alice, broken glass · What happens: bring, be, keep, snatch, crash · To what, where: little shriek, low glass box, young plants, window
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 (snatch, cucumber frame, low glass box, Alice), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 snatch | nmod:poss |
| 2 | snatch | snatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brings | nsubj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 out | fixed |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snatch | nmod |
| 7 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 shriek | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shriek | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shriek | amod |
| 11 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brings | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fall | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fall | det |
| 14 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shriek | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 crash | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crash | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 crash | det |
| 18 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shriek | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 glass | case |
| 20 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 glass | amod |
| 21 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crash | nmod |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 crash | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 brings | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 frame | det |
| 25 | cucumber | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 frame | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 cucumber | punct |
| 27 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 box | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 box | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 box | det |
| 30 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 box | amod |
| 31 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 box | compound |
| 32 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brings | parataxis |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 keeps | nsubj |
| 34 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 box | acl:relcl |
| 35 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 plants | amod |
| 36 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 keeps | obj |
| 37 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 keeps | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 greenhouse | punct |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 greenhouse | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 greenhouse | det |
| 41 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 greenhouse | amod |
| 42 | greenhouse | greenhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 keeps | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Alice's snatch out the window | a little shriek and a fall and a crash of broken glass | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a cucumber frame | a low glass box | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | a low glass box | young plants | like a tiny greenhouse; warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme | |||
| 4 | snatch | Alice | the window | nom snatch «communication transitive»: poss=agent out=place | |||||
| 5 | crash in a quote | broken glass | nom crash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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:21.
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 ×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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