Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 9
Falling down the rabbit hole, Alice thinks «after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!» — a boast that she will now be very brave.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: fall down, think, tumble down, be · To what, where: rabbit hole, nothing, stairs, boast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language 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), 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 | Falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thinks | advcl |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 hole | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hole | det |
| 4 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hole | compound |
| 5 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Falling | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Falling | punct |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 thinks | nsubj |
| 8 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 think | punct |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 fall | case |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 fall | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fall | det |
| 13 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 think | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 fall | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fall | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 think | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 think | aux |
| 19 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thinks | ccomp |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 think | obj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 tumbling | mark |
| 22 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 nothing | acl |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 tumbling | compound:prt |
| 24 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tumbling | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 think | punct |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 ! | punct |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 boast | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 boast | det |
| 29 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thinks | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 brave | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 brave | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 brave | aux |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 brave | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 brave | cop |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 brave | advmod |
| 36 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 boast | acl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | gerund | Alice not said here | the rabbit hole | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | shall | Alice | nothing | after such fall as this | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | |||
| 4 | tumble down in a quote | gerund | stairs | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | future | Alice | a boast not said here | now | brave 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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.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): R5-strong ×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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