Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 13

The pebbles turn into little cakes, and Alice reasons that a cake "can't possibly make me larger", so it "must make me smaller, I suppose".

Who acts: pebbles, Alice, cake, shower · What happens: turn, reason, not make, make, suppose · To what, where: little cakes, Alice · 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 (pebbles, Alice, cake, 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	2 pebbles	det
2	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 cakes	case
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cakes	amod
6	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reasons	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 reasons	cc
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 reasons	nsubj
10	reasons	reason	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 make	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cake	det
13	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	nsubj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
15	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 make	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 make	advmod
17	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	18 make	advmod
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 reasons	ccomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 make	obj
20	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 make	xcomp
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	27 make	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 make	nsubj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 it	punct
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 make	parataxis
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 make	obj
29	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 make	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 suppose	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 suppose	nsubj
32	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	parataxis
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 suppose	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the pebbles		little cakes		tree rules
2	reason	present	Alice				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not make in a quote	can	a cake	Alice		large, possibly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product
4	make in a quote	must	shower	Alice		small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product
5	suppose in a quote	present	Alice				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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:13.

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, 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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