Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 0
The Caterpillar and Alice stare at each other in silence until it slowly asks, "Who are you?", and Alice, after so many changes of size, honestly does not know.
Who acts: Caterpillar, silence, you, Alice, size · What happens: stare, ask, be, not know, change · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» 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 (Caterpillar, silence, you, Alice), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caterpillar | det |
| 2 | Caterpillar | caterpillar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stare | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Alice | cc |
| 4 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Caterpillar | conj |
| 5 | stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 stare | nmod |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 silence | case |
| 10 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stare | obl |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 asks | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asks | nsubj |
| 13 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 14 asks | advmod |
| 14 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stare | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Who | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Who | punct |
| 17 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 asks | ccomp |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Who | cop |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 Who | nsubj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 Who | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Who | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 know | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Alice | cc |
| 24 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 know | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 changes | punct |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 changes | case |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 many | advmod |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 changes | amod |
| 29 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 know | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 size | case |
| 31 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 changes | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 know | punct |
| 33 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 36 know | advmod |
| 34 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 know | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 know | advmod |
| 36 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stare | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stare | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | present | the Caterpillar and Alice | in silence; at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | silence | slowly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not know | present · do-support | Alice | after many changes of size | honestly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | change | size | nom change «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:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:0.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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