Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 17
The procession: ten soldiers carrying clubs, ten courtiers ornamented with diamonds, ten royal children ornamented with hearts, «jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples», the guests, the Knave of Hearts with the King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion, and last the King and Queen of Hearts.
Who acts: ten soldiers, King · What happens: carry, ornament, jump, crown · To what, where: clubs, ten courtiers, ten royal children, hand, velvet cushion
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 (ten soldiers, King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 procession | det |
| 2 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 soldiers | punct |
| 4 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 soldiers | nummod |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 procession | conj |
| 6 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 soldiers | acl |
| 7 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carrying | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 courtiers | punct |
| 9 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 courtiers | nummod |
| 10 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 soldiers | conj |
| 11 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 courtiers | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 diamonds | case |
| 13 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ornamented | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 children | punct |
| 15 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 children | nummod |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 children | amod |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 soldiers | conj |
| 18 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 children | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hearts | case |
| 20 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ornamented | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 jumping | punct |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 jumping | punct |
| 23 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 ornamented | conj |
| 24 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 23 jumping | advmod |
| 25 | along | along | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jumping | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jumping | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 couples | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 couples | case |
| 31 | couples | couple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 jumping | obl |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 jumping | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 guests | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 guests | det |
| 35 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 soldiers | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Knave | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Knave | det |
| 38 | Knave | Knave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 guests | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Hearts | case |
| 40 | Hearts | Heart | PROPN | Number=Plur | 38 Knave | nmod |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 crown | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 King | det |
| 43 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 crown | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 King | case |
| 45 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Knave | nmod |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 cushion | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 cushion | det |
| 48 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 velvet | amod |
| 49 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 cushion | compound |
| 50 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 crown | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 last | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 last | cc |
| 53 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 procession | conj |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 King | det |
| 55 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 last | obl |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 Queen | cc |
| 57 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 King | conj |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 Hearts | case |
| 59 | Hearts | Heart | PROPN | Number=Plur | 55 King | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 procession | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | gerund | ten soldiers and ten courtiers and ten royal children and the guests not said here | clubs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ornament | participle | ten courtiers not said here | with diamonds | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ornament | participle | ten royal children not said here | with hearts | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with heart=Theme | ||||
| 4 | jump in a quote | gerund | hand | along hand; in couples; merrily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along hand=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | crown | the King | a velvet cushion | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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