Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 12
Alice says she tried "How doth the little busy bee" but "it all came different".
Who acts: Alice, bee · What happens: say, try, do, come · To what, where: little busy bee · 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, bee), 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 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 doth | punct |
| 6 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 doth | advmod |
| 7 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bee | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bee | amod |
| 10 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bee | amod |
| 11 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doth | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 doth | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 it | det |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | conj |
| 18 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 came | xcomp |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 different | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | try | past | Alice | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | Alice not said here | the little busy bee | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bee=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | bee | different property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:12.
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, R7-rel-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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