Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 7
She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!"; "executed" means put to death, and ferrets are small hunting animals that chase rabbits.
Who acts: situation, me, ferrets, small hunting animals · What happens: get, execute, be, mean, put, chase · To what, where: me, ferrets, small hunting animals, rabbits · 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 (situation, me, ferrets, small hunting animals), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 get | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sure | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 sure | advmod |
| 8 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 get | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 ferrets | mark |
| 10 | ferrets | ferret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ferrets | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ferrets | cop |
| 12 | ferrets | ferret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sure | advcl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 executed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 executed | punct |
| 17 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 means | nsubj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 executed | punct |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | parataxis |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 means | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 animals | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 animals | cc |
| 25 | ferrets | ferret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 animals | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 animals | cop |
| 27 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 animals | amod |
| 28 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 animals | compound |
| 29 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 means | conj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 chase | nsubj |
| 31 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 animals | acl:relcl |
| 32 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 chase | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | situation | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | execute | participle | me not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | ferrets | ferrets | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | execute | participle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | mean in a quote | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | put not said to happen, in a quote | participle | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | ferrets | small hunting animals | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | chase in a quote | present | small hunting animals | rabbits | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=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:7.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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