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

Next they throw pebbles in at the window, but the pebbles turn into little cakes; Alice eats one, shrinks, and runs past the crowd into a thick wood.

Who acts: ladders, pebbles, Alice · What happens: throw in, turn, eat, shrink, run · To what, where: pebbles, window, little cakes, one, 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 (ladders, pebbles, 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	Next	next	ADV	_	3 throw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 throw	nsubj
3	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 throw	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	3 throw	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 throw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turn	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 turn	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pebbles	det
12	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turn	nsubj
13	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 throw	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 cakes	case
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cakes	amod
16	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turn	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 eats	punct
18	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 eats	nsubj
19	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 throw	parataxis
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 eats	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shrinks	punct
22	shrinks	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 eats	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 runs	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 runs	cc
25	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 eats	conj
26	past	past	ADP	_	28 crowd	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 crowd	det
28	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 runs	obl
29	into	into	ADP	_	32 wood	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 wood	det
31	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wood	amod
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 runs	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw in	present	ladders = ladder	pebbles	the window	next property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme at window=Destination
2	turn	present	the pebbles		little cakes		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cake=Trajectory
3	eat	present	Alice	one			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	shrink	present	Alice not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	run	present	Alice not said here			into a thick wood result; past the crowd	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result

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:2.

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, 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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