Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 10
Alice tells it that one day it will turn into a chrysalis (the hard case a caterpillar rests in) and then into a butterfly, which is true of real caterpillars.
Who acts: Alice, size, caterpillar, butterfly · What happens: tell, turn, rest in, be · To what, where: size, chrysalis, hard case · 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 (Alice, size, caterpillar, butterfly), 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 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tells | obj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 turn | mark |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turn | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turn | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 turn | aux |
| 9 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tells | ccomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 chrysalis | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 chrysalis | det |
| 12 | chrysalis | chrysalis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turn | obl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 case | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 case | det |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 case | amod |
| 16 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chrysalis | appos |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 caterpillar | det |
| 18 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rests | nsubj |
| 19 | rests | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 case | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 rests | compound:prt |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 case | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 butterfly | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 butterfly | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 butterfly | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 butterfly | det |
| 26 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chrysalis | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 true | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 true | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 true | cop |
| 30 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 butterfly | acl:relcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 caterpillars | case |
| 32 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 caterpillars | amod |
| 33 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 true | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Alice | size | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | turn | future | size | a chrysalis and a butterfly | day | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into chrysalis=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | rest in | present | a caterpillar | the hard case not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location case=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | a butterfly | of real caterpillars; true property | 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:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:10.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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