Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 16
An enormous puppy reaches out a paw to her; Alice speaks to it "in a coaxing tone" (gently and sweetly), but she is afraid it might be hungry and eat her.
Who acts: enormous puppy, Alice, puppy · What happens: reach out, speak, coax, be, eat · To what, where: paw, Alice, puppy, coaxing tone · 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 (enormous puppy, Alice, puppy), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 puppy | det |
| 2 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 puppy | amod |
| 3 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | nsubj |
| 4 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 reaches | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 paw | det |
| 7 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reaches | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 speaks | punct |
| 11 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 speaks | nsubj |
| 12 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reaches | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 speaks | obl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tone | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tone | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tone | det |
| 18 | coaxing | coax | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 tone | amod |
| 19 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 speaks | obl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tone | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 gently | punct |
| 22 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 12 speaks | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sweetly | cc |
| 24 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 22 gently | conj |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 gently | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 afraid | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 afraid | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 afraid | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 afraid | cop |
| 30 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reaches | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hungry | nsubj |
| 32 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 hungry | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 hungry | cop |
| 34 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 afraid | ccomp |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 eat | cc |
| 36 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 hungry | conj |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 eat | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach out | present | a enormous puppy | a paw | Alice | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent paw=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | Alice | puppy | a coaxing tone | gently property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | coax in a quote | gerund | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | Alice | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | might | puppy | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | eat | infinitive | puppy not said here | Alice | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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:16.
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 ×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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