Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 9

Bill, feeble and squeaky, says "something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!"; a Jack-in-the-box is a toy figure that springs out of a box, and a sky-rocket is a firework.

Who acts: Bill, something, box, toy figure, sky rocket · What happens: say, come, go, be, spring out · To what, where: toy figure, box, firework · 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 (Bill, something, box, toy figure), 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	Bill	Bill	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feeble	punct
3	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bill	appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 squeaky	cc
5	squeaky	squeaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feeble	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bill	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 comes	punct
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 comes	nsubj
10	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 comes	obl
13	like	like	ADP	_	21 box	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 box	det
15	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 box	flat
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 box	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 box	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 in	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 box	det
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 the	punct
21	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 comes	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 goes	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 goes	cc
24	up	up	ADV	_	26 goes	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 goes	nsubj
26	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 comes	conj
27	like	like	ADP	_	31 rocket	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 rocket	det
29	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rocket	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 sky	punct
31	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 goes	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 goes	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 goes	punct
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 box	det
36	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 box	nsubj
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 box	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	42 box	case
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 in	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 box	det
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 the	punct
42	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 figure	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 figure	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 figure	det
45	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 figure	compound
46	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	ccomp
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 springs	nsubj
48	springs	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 figure	acl:relcl
49	out	out	ADP	_	52 box	case
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 box	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 box	det
52	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 springs	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 firework	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 firework	cc
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 rocket	det
56	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 rocket	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 sky	punct
58	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 firework	nsubj
59	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 firework	cop
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 firework	det
61	firework	firework	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 figure	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	Bill			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	present	something		at Bill; like a Jack box	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at i=Location
3	go in a quote	present	Bill		like a sky rocket	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	a box	a toy figure and a firework		tree rules
5	spring out	present	a toy figure and a firework	a box		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location box=Theme
6	is a	present	a sky rocket	a firework		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:9.

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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