Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 4
The Rabbit and his gardener Pat argue about the giant arm in the window, and a second snatch brings two shrieks and more broken glass: a scary situation turned into a funny one.
Who acts: Rabbit, second snatch, scary situation · What happens: argue, bring, turn · To what, where: two shrieks
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 (Rabbit, second snatch, scary situation), 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 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 argue | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gardener | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gardener | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Rabbit | conj |
| 6 | Pat | Pat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gardener | appos |
| 7 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 arm | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 arm | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 arm | amod |
| 11 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 argue | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 window | det |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arm | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brings | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brings | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 snatch | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 snatch | amod |
| 19 | snatch | snatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brings | nsubj |
| 20 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 argue | conj |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 shrieks | nummod |
| 22 | shrieks | shriek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brings | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 glass | cc |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 glass | amod |
| 25 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 glass | amod |
| 26 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shrieks | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 turned | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 situation | det |
| 29 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 situation | amod |
| 30 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 turned | nsubj |
| 31 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 argue | parataxis |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 one | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 one | det |
| 34 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 one | amod |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 turned | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 argue | 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 | argue speech: disagree | present | the Rabbit and Rabbit's gardener | about the giant arm in the window | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about arm=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | a second snatch | two shrieks and more broken glass | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | a scary situation | into a funny one | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory |
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:4.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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