Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 7

Nobody wants to go down the chimney, so it is "Bill's to go down"; Alice says "they seem to put everything upon Bill!", meaning he gets all the jobs nobody wants.

Who acts: Nobody, slate, Alice, ladders, Rabbit · What happens: want, go down, be, say, seem, put · To what, where: chimney, everything, jobs · 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 (Nobody, slate, Alice, ladders), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 chimney	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chimney	det
7	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Bill	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 Bill	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 Bill	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Bill	cop
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Bill	punct
13	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wants	conj
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Bill	case
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	advcl
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 down	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
20	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 says	nsubj
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	parataxis
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 seem	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seem	nsubj
24	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 says	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 put	mark
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seem	xcomp
27	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 put	obj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 Bill	case
29	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 seem	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 seem	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 meaning	punct
33	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wants	parataxis
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gets	nsubj
35	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 meaning	ccomp
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 jobs	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 jobs	det
38	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 gets	obj
39	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	40 wants	nsubj
40	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 jobs	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	Nobody			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go down not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here	the chimney		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient chimney=Extent
3	is in a quote	present	slate		's Bill	tree rules
4	go down in a quote	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	say speech: express	present	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	seem in a quote	present	ladders = ladder			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	put in a quote	to-infinitive	ladders = ladder not said here	everything	upon Bill	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme upon bill=Destination
8	mean	gerund				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	get	present	Rabbit	all jobs		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus
10	want	present	nobody	all jobs not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot job=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:7.

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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