Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 1
The White Rabbit pulls a watch out of his waistcoat pocket, because men then carried pocket watches on a chain, not watches on the wrist.
Who acts: White Rabbit, men · What happens: pull, carry · To what, where: watch, waistcoat pocket, pocket watches, chain
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history 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 (White Rabbit, men), 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 | 3 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Rabbit | amod |
| 3 | Rabbit | rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pulls | nsubj |
| 4 | pulls | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 watch | det |
| 6 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulls | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 pocket | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pocket | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pocket | compound |
| 11 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulls | obl | ||
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 watches | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 carried | mark |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carried | nsubj |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 carried | advmod |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulls | advcl |
| 17 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 watches | compound | ||
| 18 | watches | watch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carried | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 chain | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 chain | det |
| 21 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 watches | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 watches | advmod |
| 24 | watches | watch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pulls | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 wrist | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wrist | det |
| 27 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 watches | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulls | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | present | the White Rabbit | a watch | Rabbit's waistcoat pocket | watches on the wrist obl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | carry | past | men | pocket watches | a chain | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:1.
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, 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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