Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 10

The Rabbit says "We must burn the house down!", and Alice shouts "If you do, I'll set Dinah at you!", after which there is "a dead silence".

Who acts: Rabbit, We, Alice, dead silence · What happens: say, burn down, shout, set, be · To what, where: house, Dinah · 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 (Rabbit, We, Alice, dead silence), 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 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 burn	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 burn	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 burn	aux
7	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	7 burn	compound:prt
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 burn	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 burn	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shouts	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shouts	cc
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 shouts	nsubj
16	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
18	If	if	SCONJ	_	20 do	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 do	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 set	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 do	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 set	nsubj
23	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 set	aux
24	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 shouts	ccomp
25	Dinah	Dinah	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 set	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 set	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 is	punct
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 is	obl
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 is	expl
34	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 silence	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 silence	det
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 silence	amod
38	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 is	nsubj
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 silence	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	the Rabbit				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	burn down in a quote	must	We	the house			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	shout speech: express	present	Alice				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	set in a quote	future	Alice	Dinah		at you	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dinah=Theme at you=Destination
5	be	present	a dead silence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:10.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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