Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 18

At last the puppy sits panting with its tongue out, and Alice runs off and leans against a buttercup to rest; later she says "what a dear little puppy it was!"

Who acts: puppy, Alice · What happens: sit, pant, run off, lean, rest, say · To what, where: last, buttercup, dear little puppy · 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 (puppy, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sits	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 puppy	det
4	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sits	nsubj
5	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	panting	pant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sits	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 tongue	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tongue	nmod:poss
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 panting	obl
10	out	out	ADV	_	6 panting	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 runs	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 runs	cc
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 runs	nsubj
14	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sits	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 runs	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 leans	cc
17	leans	lean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 runs	conj
18	against	against	ADP	_	20 buttercup	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 buttercup	det
20	buttercup	buttercup	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leans	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 rest	mark
22	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 leans	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 says	punct
24	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 says	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 says	nsubj
26	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sits	parataxis
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 puppy	punct
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 dear	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 puppy	det
30	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 puppy	amod
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 puppy	amod
32	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 says	ccomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 puppy	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 puppy	cop
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 puppy	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 puppy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the puppy		last		tree rules
2	pant	gerund	the puppy not said here			with puppy's tongue; out property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run off	present	Alice				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lean	present	Alice not said here		a buttercup		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against buttercup=Location
5	rest	to-infinitive	Alice not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: express	present	Alice			late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	past	puppy	a dear little puppy			tree rules

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:18.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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