Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 14

Five splashes paint on Two and blames Seven, who «jogged my elbow»; Seven answers «Always lay the blame on others!»

Who acts: Five splashes, Seven · What happens: paint, blame, jog, answer, lay · To what, where: Two, Seven, elbow, blame, others · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red)» 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 (Five splashes, Seven), 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	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 splashes	nummod
2	splashes	splash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paint	nsubj
3	paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Two	case
5	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 paint	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 blames	cc
7	blames	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 paint	conj
8	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 blames	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 jogged	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 jogged	nsubj
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 jogged	punct
12	jogged	jog	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Seven	acl:relcl
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 elbow	nmod:poss
14	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jogged	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 jogged	punct
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
17	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 answers	nsubj
18	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 paint	conj
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
20	Always	always	ADV	_	21 lay	advmod
21	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 answers	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 blame	det
23	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 others	case
25	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lay	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 paint	punct
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 paint	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	paint	present	Five splashes		Two		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on two=Destination
2	blame	present	Five splashes not said here	Seven			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Theme
3	jog in a quote	past		my elbow			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme elbow=Trajectory
4	answer speech: express	present	Seven				tree rules
5	lay in a quote	infinitive		the blame	others	always property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blame=Theme on other=Destination

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:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:14.

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): no change. 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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