Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 3
There a puppy, enormous to tiny Alice, bounds at her; she keeps it busy with a stick, dodging round a thistle, until it gets tired and she escapes.
Who acts: Alice, puppy · What happens: bound, keep, dodge, get, escape · To what, where: puppy
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, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 enormous | expl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 puppy | det |
| 3 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enormous | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 enormous | punct |
| 5 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Alice | case |
| 7 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Alice | amod |
| 8 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 enormous | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bounds | punct |
| 10 | bounds | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enormous | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bounds | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 keeps | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 keeps | nsubj |
| 15 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bounds | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 keeps | obj |
| 17 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 keeps | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 stick | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stick | det |
| 20 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 busy | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dodging | punct |
| 22 | dodging | dodge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 keeps | advcl |
| 23 | round | round | ADP | _ | 25 thistle | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thistle | det |
| 25 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dodging | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gets | punct |
| 27 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 gets | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 gets | nsubj |
| 29 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 dodging | parataxis |
| 30 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 gets | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 escapes | cc |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 escapes | nsubj |
| 33 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 gets | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bounds | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | present | at Alice | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at her=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | Alice | puppy | busy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | dodge | gerund | Alice not said here | round a thistle | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | present | puppy | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | escape | present | Alice | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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