Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 0

Outside the house a whole crowd arrives with ladders, and after a lot of shouting they decide that poor Bill, a lizard, must climb down the chimney to deal with the giant.

Who acts: whole crowd, lot, ladders, poor Bill · What happens: arrive, shout, decide, climb down, deal · To what, where: chimney · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy» 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 (whole crowd, lot, ladders, poor Bill), 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	Outside	outside	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrives	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crowd	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crowd	amod
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrives	nsubj
7	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 ladders	case
9	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 arrives	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shouting	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shouting	cc
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 shouting	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lot	det
14	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shouting	nsubj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 shouting	mark
16	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 arrives	conj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 decide	nsubj
18	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 arrives	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 climb	mark
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Bill	amod
21	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 climb	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lizard	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lizard	det
24	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Bill	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Bill	punct
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 climb	aux
27	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 decide	ccomp
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 climb	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 chimney	det
30	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 climb	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 deal	mark
32	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 climb	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 giant	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 giant	det
35	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 deal	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 arrives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	a whole crowd		outside the house; with ladders	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express	gerund	a lot			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	decide	present	ladders = ladder			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	climb down	must	poor Bill	the chimney		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location chimney=Theme
5	deal	to-infinitive	poor Bill not said here		with the giant	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with giant=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:008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.lesson:0.

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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