Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 12
The Rabbit orders "A barrowful will do, to begin with", meaning a wheelbarrow full, and a shower of pebbles rattles in at the window.
Who acts: Rabbit, barrowful, shower · What happens: order, do, begin, mean, rattle · To what, where: wheelbarrow · 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, barrowful, shower), 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 | 3 orders | det |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 orders | nsubj |
| 3 | orders | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 barrowful | det |
| 6 | barrowful | barrowful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 orders | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 begin | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 begin | mark |
| 11 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 do | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 begin | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 meaning | punct |
| 15 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 do | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wheelbarrow | det |
| 17 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meaning | obj |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wheelbarrow | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rattles | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rattles | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 shower | det |
| 22 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rattles | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 pebbles | case |
| 24 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shower | nmod |
| 25 | rattles | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 orders | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 rattles | advmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 window | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 window | det |
| 29 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rattles | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 orders | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | present | Rabbit | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | a barrowful | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin in a quote | to-infinitive | a barrowful not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | mean | gerund | a barrowful not said here | a wheelbarrow | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelbarrow=Topic | ||||
| 5 | rattle | present | a shower of pebbles | at the window | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at window=Stimulus |
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:12.
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): no change. 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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