Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 5

Alice hears a rumbling of little cartwheels and many voices: "Where's the other ladder?—Why, I hadn't to bring but one; Bill's got the other".

Who acts: Alice, Bill, little cartwheels · What happens: hear, be, not have, bring, get, rumble · To what, where: rumbling, other ladder, one, other · 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, Bill, little cartwheels), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hears	nsubj
2	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rumbling	det
4	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hears	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cartwheels	case
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cartwheels	amod
7	cartwheels	cartwheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rumbling	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 voices	cc
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 voices	amod
10	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cartwheels	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 ladder	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 ladder	punct
13	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 ladder	advmod
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ladder	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ladder	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ladder	amod
17	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hears	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 ladder	punct
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 Why	punct
20	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 hears	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Why	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Why	ccomp
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 had	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 bring	mark
26	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 one	advmod
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 bring	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 got	punct
30	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 got	nsubj
31	's	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 got	aux
32	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 bring	ccomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 other	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 got	obj
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 other	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hears	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	present	Alice	a rumbling of little cartwheels and many voices	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present		the other ladder	tree rules
3	not have in a quote	past	Alice		tree rules
4	bring in a quote	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	one	tree rules
5	get in a quote	present · perfect	Bill	the other	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus
6	rumble		little cartwheels and many voices		nom rumbling «event intransitive»: of=agent

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:5.

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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