Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 15
Her plan is first "to grow to my right size again" and second "to find my way into that lovely garden", but "she had not the smallest idea how to set about it".
Who acts: plan, Alice · What happens: be, grow, find, not have, set, plan · To what, where: way, lovely garden, smallest idea · 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 (plan, Alice), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 plan | nmod:poss |
| 2 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 first | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 first | cop |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 grow | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 grow | mark |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 first | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 size | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 size | nmod:poss |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 size | amod |
| 11 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grow | obl |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 size | advmod |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 grow | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 second | cc |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 first | conj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 second | xcomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 garden | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 garden | det |
| 23 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 garden | amod |
| 24 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obl |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 first | parataxis |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 had | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 idea | det |
| 33 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 idea | amod |
| 34 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obj |
| 35 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 set | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 set | mark |
| 37 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 idea | acl |
| 38 | about | about | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 set | obl |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 first | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Alice's plan | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow in a quote | to-infinitive | Alice's plan not said here | to my right size | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | Alice's plan not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | Alice's plan not said here | my way | that lovely garden | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 5 | not have in a quote | past | Alice | the smallest idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 6 | set in a quote | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | the smallest idea not said here | about plan | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about it=Destination | |||
| 7 | plan | Alice | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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:15.
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 ×5. 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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