The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 0
«Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» is full of animals that talk, argue and play croquet, but most of them are real animals with real habits, and Lewis Carroll often chose them because of those habits or of old sayings about them.
Who acts: Adventures, animals, most, Lewis Carroll · What happens: be, talk, argue, play, choose · To what, where: croquet, real animals, Adventures
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» of the biology 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 (Adventures, animals, most, Lewis Carroll), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Adventures | punct |
| 2 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Adventures | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Alice | case |
| 4 | Adventures | adventure | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 full | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Wonderland | case |
| 6 | Wonderland | wonderland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Adventures | nmod |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 Adventures | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | cop |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 animals | case |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 talk | nsubj |
| 13 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 animals | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 argue | punct |
| 15 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 talk | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 play | cc |
| 17 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 talk | conj |
| 18 | croquet | croquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 play | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 animals | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 animals | cc |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 animals | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 most | nmod |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 animals | cop |
| 25 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 animals | amod |
| 26 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 full | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 habits | case |
| 28 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 habits | amod |
| 29 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 animals | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 chose | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 chose | cc |
| 32 | Lewis | Lewis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Carroll | compound |
| 33 | Carroll | carroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 chose | nsubj |
| 34 | often | often | ADV | _ | 35 chose | advmod |
| 35 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 chose | obj |
| 37 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 40 habits | case |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 because | fixed |
| 39 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 40 habits | det |
| 40 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 chose | obl |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 sayings | cc |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 sayings | case |
| 43 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 sayings | amod |
| 44 | sayings | saying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 habits | conj |
| 45 | about | about | ADP | _ | 46 them | case |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 sayings | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 full | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | of animals; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | animals | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | present | animals not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | play | present | animals not said here | croquet | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croquet=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | most of Adventures | real animals | with real habits | tree rules | |||
| 6 | choose | past | Lewis Carroll | Adventures = adventure | because that habits or old sayings about Adventures; often property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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