Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 22
Old words in today's English: "by-the-bye" = by the way, "giddy" = dizzy, "you grant that?" = do you agree?, "thatched" = roofed (usually with straw, here with fur).
Who acts: Old words, you, bye · What happens: grant, agree, thatch, roof, word · To what, where: that, English · 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 (Old words, you, bye), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 grant | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 English | case |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 English | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 today | case |
| 6 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 bye | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bye | punct |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 bye | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 by | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bye | det |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 the | punct |
| 13 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bye | punct |
| 15 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 28 grant | punct |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 grant | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 giddy | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 giddy | punct |
| 21 | giddy | giddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | parataxis |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 giddy | punct |
| 23 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 24 dizzy | punct |
| 24 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 giddy | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 giddy | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 grant | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 grant | nsubj |
| 28 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 grant | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 grant | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 grant | punct |
| 32 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 35 agree | punct |
| 33 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 agree | aux |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 agree | nsubj |
| 35 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 grant | parataxis |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 35 agree | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 thatched | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 thatched | punct |
| 39 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 agree | parataxis |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 thatched | punct |
| 41 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 42 roofed | punct |
| 42 | roofed | roof | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 thatched | conj |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 straw | punct |
| 44 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 42 roofed | advmod |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 straw | case |
| 46 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 roofed | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 here | punct |
| 48 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 straw | advmod |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 fur | case |
| 50 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 straw | nmod |
| 51 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 straw | punct |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant in a quote | present | Old words in today's English by the bye | that | by the way | tree rules | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | present · do-support | you | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | thatch in a quote | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | roof | participle | with straw with fur; usually property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with straw=Theme | |||||
| 5 | word | the bye | today's English | nom word «communication transitive»: in=place by=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:22.
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. 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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