Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 4
Resting, she wonders what to eat or drink to grow again, and peeps over a big mushroom to find a large blue caterpillar sitting on top: noisy and slapstick first, then quiet and curious.
Who acts: Alice, large blue caterpillar · What happens: rest, wonder, eat, drink, grow, peep · To what, where: large blue caterpillar, top · 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 (Alice, large blue caterpillar), 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 | Resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 wonders | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Resting | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wonders | nsubj |
| 4 | wonders | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 eat | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wonders | ccomp |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 drink | cc |
| 9 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 eat | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 grow | mark |
| 11 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 drink | xcomp |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 grow | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 peeps | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 peeps | cc |
| 15 | peeps | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonders | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 mushroom | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mushroom | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mushroom | amod |
| 19 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 peeps | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 peeps | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 caterpillar | det |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 caterpillar | amod |
| 24 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 caterpillar | amod |
| 25 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 26 | sitting | sitting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 caterpillar | acl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 top | case |
| 28 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sitting | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 noisy | punct |
| 30 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sitting | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 slapstick | cc |
| 32 | slapstick | slapstick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 noisy | conj |
| 33 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 noisy | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 quiet | punct |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 quiet | advmod |
| 36 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 noisy | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 curious | cc |
| 38 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 quiet | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonders | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | gerund | Alice not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | present | Alice | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | grow | to-infinitive | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | peep | present | Alice not said here | over a big mushroom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over mushroom=Theme | ||||
| 7 | find | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | a large blue caterpillar | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Topic | ||||
| 8 | sitting | gerund | a large blue caterpillar not said here | top | 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:4.
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): no change. 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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