Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 15
"Mad" in this book means crazy and silly; calling real people "mad" because they are ill is unkind.
Who acts: real people, people, calling · What happens: mean, call, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» 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 (real people, people, calling), 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 | _ | 2 Mad | punct |
| 2 | Mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mad | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 book | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 book | det |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Mad | advcl:relcl |
| 8 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 silly | cc |
| 10 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crazy | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 unkind | punct |
| 12 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 unkind | csubj |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 calling | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mad | punct |
| 16 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 calling | xcomp |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mad | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 ill | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ill | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ill | cop |
| 21 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 calling | advcl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 unkind | cop |
| 23 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Mad | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mad | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed form=decl, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | in this book; crazy property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in book=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | call | gerund | real people | mad property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | people | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | calling | unkind 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:books:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:15.
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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