Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 17
Therefore I'm mad." Alice says "I call it purring, not growling."
Who acts: I, Alice · What happens: be, say, call, purr, not growl · To what, where: tail · 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 (I, 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 mad | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 mad | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mad | cop |
| 4 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mad | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mad | punct |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mad | parataxis |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 call | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 call | nsubj |
| 11 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 call | obj |
| 13 | purring | purr | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 call | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 growling | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 growling | advmod |
| 16 | growling | growl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 purring | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mad | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mad | 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 | I | mad, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | call | present | I | tail | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | purr | gerund | I not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not growl | gerund | I not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:17.
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. 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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