Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 1

Alice gives one sharp kick with the foot she has up the chimney, and Bill shoots out "like a sky-rocket"; when the Rabbit talks of burning the house down, Alice threatens to set her cat Dinah on them.

Who acts: Alice, Bill, Rabbit · What happens: give, have up, shoot out, talk, burn down, threaten · To what, where: one sharp kick, chimney, house, cat

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 (Alice, Bill, Rabbit), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kick	nummod
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kick	amod
5	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 foot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foot	det
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 foot	acl:relcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 has	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chimney	det
13	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shoots	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 shoots	cc
16	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 shoots	nsubj
17	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gives	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 shoots	compound:prt
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 rocket	punct
20	like	like	ADP	_	24 rocket	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rocket	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rocket	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 sky	punct
24	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shoots	obl
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 rocket	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 talks	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 talks	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Rabbit	det
29	Rabbit	rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 talks	nsubj
30	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 threatens	advcl
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 burning	mark
32	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 talks	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 house	det
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 burning	obj
35	down	down	ADP	_	32 burning	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 threatens	punct
37	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 threatens	nsubj
38	threatens	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gives	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 set	mark
40	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 threatens	xcomp
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 cat	nmod:poss
42	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 set	obj
43	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 cat	appos
44	on	on	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 set	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	Alice	one sharp kick	with the foot	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Theme
2	have up	present	Alice	the chimney		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
3	shoot out	present	Bill		like a sky rocket	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	talk	present	the Rabbit			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	burn down	gerund	the Rabbit not said here	the house		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme
6	threaten	present	Alice			tree rules
7	set not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	Bill's cat	on ladders = ladder	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme on they=Destination

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:1.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×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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