Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 28
Talk in this lesson: «innit» (London) = isn't it; «no cap» = no lie, honestly; «mardy» (North and Midlands England) = sulky; «yinz» (Pittsburgh, USA) = you lot; «canny» (North East England) = quite, or nice.
Who acts: you · What happens: talk, not be, mardy · To what, where: «, lesson, beat, »
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time)» 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 (you), 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 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 « | punct |
| 6 | « | « | X | _ | 1 Talk | obj |
| 7 | innit | innit | X | _ | 6 « | goeswith |
| 8 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 « | goeswith |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 London | punct |
| 10 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 » | parataxis |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 London | punct |
| 12 | = | = | SYM | _ | 6 « | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 it | cop |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 it | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 « | goeswith |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 cap | punct |
| 17 | « | « | ADP | _ | 19 cap | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 cap | det |
| 19 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 « | flat |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 cap | punct |
| 21 | = | = | SYM | _ | 23 lie | punct |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 lie | det |
| 23 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 « | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 honestly | punct |
| 25 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 1 Talk | advmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 mardy | punct |
| 27 | « | « | PART | _ | 28 mardy | mark |
| 28 | mardy | mardy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | conj |
| 29 | » | » | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 mardy | obj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 England | punct |
| 31 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 England | compound |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Midlands | cc |
| 33 | Midlands | Midlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 North | conj |
| 34 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 mardy | obj |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 England | punct |
| 36 | = | = | SYM | _ | 37 sulky | punct |
| 37 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mardy | parataxis |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 » | punct |
| 39 | « | « | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 yinz | nsubj |
| 40 | yinz | yinz | PROPN | _ | 41 » | compound |
| 41 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 42 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 Pittsburgh | punct |
| 43 | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 » | appos |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 USA | punct |
| 45 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Pittsburgh | nmod:unmarked |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 Pittsburgh | punct |
| 47 | = | = | SYM | _ | 49 lot | punct |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 lot | nmod:poss |
| 49 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 » | conj |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 » | punct |
| 51 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 52 canny | punct |
| 52 | canny | canny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 » | amod |
| 53 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 » | appos |
| 54 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 57 England | punct |
| 55 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 East | compound |
| 56 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 England | compound |
| 57 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 » | appos |
| 58 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 57 England | punct |
| 59 | = | = | SYM | _ | 53 » | punct |
| 60 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 1 Talk | advmod |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 nice | punct |
| 62 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 63 nice | cc |
| 63 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | « and no lie | this lesson | yinz » and you's lot obl; honestly property | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent «=Patient | ||
| 2 | not is a | present | beat | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mardy in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | » | 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:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:28.
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, 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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