Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 16

Two explains: «this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake»; «afore she comes» is old country talk for before she comes.

Who acts: Two, this, we, Seven · What happens: explain, be, put, come · To what, where: red rose tree, white one, mistake, old country talk · 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 (Two, this, we, 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 explains	nsubj
2	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 explains	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 tree	punct
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 tree	nsubj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 tree	advmod
7	ought	ought	AUX	_	15 tree	aux
8	to	to	PART	_	15 tree	mark
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 tree	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 tree	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tree	amod
13	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 rose	punct
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 explains	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 put	cc
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 put	nsubj
19	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tree	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 one	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	amod
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 mistake	case
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 mistake	case
25	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 comes	punct
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 comes	punct
29	afore	afore	ADJ	Degree=Pos Typo=Yes	31 comes	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 comes	nsubj
31	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tree	parataxis
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 comes	punct
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 talk	cop
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 talk	amod
35	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 talk	compound
36	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 explains	ccomp
37	for	for	ADP	_	40 comes	case
38	before	before	SCONJ	_	40 comes	mark
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 comes	nsubj
40	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 talk	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 explains	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	Two			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	ought · perfect	this	a red rose tree	here	tree rules
3	put in a quote	past	we	a white one	mistake	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme in mistake=Destination
4	come in a quote	present	Seven			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present		old country talk		tree rules
6	come	present	Seven			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:16.

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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