Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 14

She shrinks, runs out, and sees Bill the Lizard being held up by two guinea-pigs, who give him something out of a bottle; the crowd rushes at her, but she escapes into a thick wood.

Who acts: Alice, two guinea pigs, crowd · What happens: shrink, run out, see, hold up, give, rush · To what, where: Bill, something, Rabbit, bottle, thick wood

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, two guinea pigs, crowd), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shrinks	nsubj
2	shrinks	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 runs	punct
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shrinks	conj
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 runs	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sees	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sees	cc
8	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shrinks	conj
9	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sees	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lizard	det
11	Lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Bill	appos
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 held	aux:pass
13	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sees	xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 held	compound:prt
15	by	by	ADP	_	19 pigs	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 pigs	nummod
17	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pigs	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 guinea	punct
19	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 held	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 give	nsubj
22	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 pigs	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 give	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 bottle	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 bottle	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bottle	det
28	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 rushes	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 crowd	det
31	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rushes	nsubj
32	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shrinks	parataxis
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 rushes	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 escapes	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 escapes	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 escapes	nsubj
38	escapes	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shrinks	conj
39	into	into	ADP	_	42 wood	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 wood	det
41	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 wood	amod
42	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 escapes	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shrinks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shrink	present	Alice					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	run out	present	Alice not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	present	Alice not said here	Bill				tree rules
4	hold up	gerund · passive	two guinea pigs					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	give	present	two guinea pigs	something	Rabbit	a bottle		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme
6	rush	present	the crowd				at Alice	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Trajectory
7	escape	present	Alice			a thick wood		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location

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:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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