Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 25

Old words in today's English: "lest" = in case, "directly" = at once, "as a last resource" = as the last thing left to try, "no sort of chance" = no chance at all.

Who acts: last thing, sort · What happens: leave, try, sort · To what, where: sort, chance

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 (last thing, sort), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lest	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 English	case
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 English	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 today	case
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 words	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lest	punct
9	lest	lest	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lest	punct
11	=	=	SYM	_	13 case	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 case	case
13	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lest	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 directly	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 directly	punct
16	directly	directly	ADV	_	9 lest	advmod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 directly	punct
18	=	=	SYM	_	20 once	punct
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	_	9 lest	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 once	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 resource	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 resource	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 resource	det
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 resource	amod
26	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 once	obl
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 resource	punct
28	=	=	SYM	_	33 left	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 left	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thing	det
31	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thing	amod
32	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	nsubj
33	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lest	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 try	mark
35	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 left	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 left	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 sort	punct
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 sort	det
39	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 chance	case
41	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sort	nmod
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 sort	punct
43	=	=	SYM	_	45 chance	punct
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 chance	det
45	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	obl
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 all	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 chance	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the last thing	no sort of chance	no chance at all obl	tree rules
2	try	to-infinitive	no sort of chance not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	sort in a quote			chance		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:25.

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, R6-punct-agree ×4. 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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