Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 19
«My name is Alice, so please your Majesty» is the old polite way to speak to a queen; to herself she says «they're only a pack of cards, after all.
Who acts: name, Alice, clubs, My · What happens: be, speak, say, name · To what, where: Alice, old polite way, pack · 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 (name, Alice, clubs, My), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Alice | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Alice | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Alice | cop |
| 5 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 way | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Majesty | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 Majesty | advmod |
| 8 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 10 Majesty | discourse |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Alice | appos |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 Alice | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 15 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 says | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 speak | mark |
| 18 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 way | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 queen | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 queen | det |
| 21 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 speak | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 herself | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 herself | case |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 says | obl |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 says | nsubj |
| 26 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 pack | punct |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 pack | nsubj |
| 29 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 pack | cop |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 pack | advmod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 pack | det |
| 32 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 says | ccomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 cards | case |
| 34 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 pack | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 all | punct |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 37 all | case |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 says | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | My name | Alice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Alice | the old polite way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | to a queen | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to queen=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Alice | Alice | after all | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | clubs = club | a pack | of cards | tree rules | |||
| 6 | name in a quote | My | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:19.
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, R8-pos-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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