Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 8

Alice draws her foot down the chimney, waits till she hears a little animal scrambling close above her, says "This is Bill," and gives "one sharp kick" to stop it; a chorus cries "There goes Bill!"

Who acts: Alice, little animal, This, chorus · What happens: draw, wait, hear, scrambling, say, be · To what, where: foot, little animal, Bill, one sharp kick, kick · 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, little animal, This, chorus), 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 draws	nsubj
2	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 says	conj
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 foot	nmod:poss
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 draws	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 chimney	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chimney	det
7	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 draws	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waits	punct
9	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 draws	conj
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 hears	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hears	nsubj
12	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 waits	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 animal	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 animal	amod
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hears	obj
16	scrambling	scrambling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 animal	acl
17	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 scrambling	advmod
18	above	above	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 scrambling	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Bill	punct
23	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 Bill	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 Bill	cop
25	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 says	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Bill	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Bill	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gives	cc
29	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 says	conj
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 kick	punct
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 kick	nummod
32	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 kick	amod
33	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gives	obj
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 kick	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 stop	mark
36	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 gives	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 stop	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 cries	punct
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 chorus	det
40	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cries	nsubj
41	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 gives	parataxis
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 goes	punct
43	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	44 goes	expl
44	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 cries	ccomp
45	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 goes	obj
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	41 cries	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 cries	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	present	Alice	Alice's foot		down the chimney	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2	wait	present	Alice not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	present	Alice	a little animal			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus
4	scrambling	gerund	a little animal not said here			above Alice; close property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	This	Bill			tree rules
7	give	present		one sharp kick			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Theme
8	stop	to-infinitive		kick			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
9	cry speech: express	present	a chorus				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	go in a quote	present		Bill	there		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bill=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:8.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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