Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 24
The Duchess answers "Talking of axes, chop off her head!", a pun on axis and axes (chopping tools), and later "I never could abide figures!" ("abide" = stand, "figures" = numbers).
Who acts: Duchess · What happens: answer, chop, not abide, abide, stand · To what, where: Talking, figures · 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), 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 answers | nsubj |
| 3 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Talking | punct |
| 5 | Talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answers | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 axes | case |
| 7 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Talking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 chop | punct |
| 9 | chop | chop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Talking | appos |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chop | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 chop | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 chop | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pun | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pun | det |
| 17 | pun | pun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Talking | appos |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 axis | case |
| 19 | axis | axis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pun | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 axes | cc |
| 21 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 axis | conj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 tools | punct |
| 23 | chopping | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 tools | amod |
| 24 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 axes | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 tools | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 abide | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 abide | cc |
| 28 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 abide | advmod |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 abide | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 abide | nsubj |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 abide | advmod |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 abide | aux |
| 33 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answers | conj |
| 34 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 abide | obj |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 abide | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 abide | punct |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 abide | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 abide | punct |
| 39 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 abide | parataxis |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 abide | punct |
| 41 | = | = | SYM | _ | 42 stand | dep |
| 42 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 abide | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 figures | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 figures | punct |
| 45 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 stand | obj |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 figures | punct |
| 47 | = | = | SYM | _ | 48 numbers | dep |
| 48 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 figures | conj |
| 49 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 48 numbers | punct |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | present | the Duchess | Talking | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent talking=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | chop | gerund | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | not abide in a quote | could | the Duchess = duchess | figures | late property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | abide in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | stand | infinitive | figures and numbers | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |
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): 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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