Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 9
The Rabbit calls out "Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here?" and orders her to fetch "a pair of gloves and a fan"; Alice says "He took me for his housemaid".
Who acts: Rabbit, you, Alice · What happens: call out, do out, order, fetch, say, take · To what, where: Mary, pair, Alice · 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 (Rabbit, you, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 calls | compound:prt |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Why | punct |
| 6 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 doing | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mary | punct |
| 8 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | vocative |
| 9 | Ann | Ann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mary | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mary | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 doing | obj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 doing | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 doing | nsubj |
| 14 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 calls | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 doing | compound:prt |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 doing | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 doing | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 doing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 orders | cc |
| 20 | orders | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 calls | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 orders | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 fetch | mark |
| 23 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 orders | xcomp |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 pair | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pair | det |
| 26 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fetch | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 gloves | case |
| 28 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 pair | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fan | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 fan | det |
| 31 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pair | conj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 pair | punct |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 says | punct |
| 34 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 says | nsubj |
| 35 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 calls | parataxis |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 took | punct |
| 37 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 took | nsubj |
| 38 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 says | ccomp |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 took | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 housemaid | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 housemaid | nmod:poss |
| 42 | housemaid | housemaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 took | obl |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 took | punct |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: ask | present | the Rabbit | Mary vocative | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do out in a quote | present · progressive | you | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | order | present | the Rabbit not said here | Mary | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fetch not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Rabbit not said here | a pair of gloves and a fan | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | take in a quote | past | Rabbit | Alice | for Rabbit's housemaid | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for housemaid=Beneficiary |
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:9.
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 ×2, 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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