Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 23

The Duchess says "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go round a deal faster than it does", and Alice, "very glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge", explains the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn on its axis (which is true).

Who acts: Duchess, everybody, world, Alice, opportunity, earth · What happens: say, mind, go round, get, show off, explain · To what, where: own business, opportunity, little, axis · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» 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 (Duchess, everybody, world, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Duchess	det
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
5	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 minded	mark
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 minded	nsubj
7	minded	mind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 go	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 business	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 business	amod
10	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 minded	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 minded	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
16	round	round	ADV	_	19 faster	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 deal	det
18	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 faster	obl:unmarked
19	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 go	xcomp
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 does	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 does	nsubj
22	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 faster	advcl
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Alice	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 explains	cc
26	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 explains	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 glad	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 glad	punct
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 glad	advmod
30	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Alice	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 get	mark
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 glad	advcl
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 opportunity	det
34	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obj
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 showing	mark
36	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 opportunity	acl
37	off	off	ADP	_	36 showing	compound:prt
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 little	det
39	little	little	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 showing	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 knowledge	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 knowledge	nmod:poss
42	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 little	nmod
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 explains	punct
45	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 earth	det
47	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 takes	nsubj
48	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 explains	ccomp
49	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 four	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 four	punct
51	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 hours	nummod
52	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 takes	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 turn	mark
54	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 takes	advcl
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 axis	case
56	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 axis	nmod:poss
57	axis	axis	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 turn	obl
58	(	(	PUNCT	_	61 true	punct
59	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 true	nsubj
60	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 true	cop
61	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 axis	parataxis
62	)	)	PUNCT	_	61 true	punct
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Duchess					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mind a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	everybody	irons's own business				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme
3	go round in a quote	would	the world				fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get in a quote	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	a opportunity				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opportunity=Stimulus
5	show off in a quote	gerund	a opportunity not said here	a little of Alice's knowledge				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent little=Recipient
6	explain speech: assert	present	Alice					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	take	present	the earth			hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	turn	to-infinitive	the earth not said here		earth's axis			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on axis=Trajectory
9	is	present	earth's axis				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.

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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