Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 31
The croquet-ground is «all ridges and furrows» (bumps and dips); the balls are live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the arches are soldiers bent double.
Who acts: croquet ground, balls, mallets, arches · What happens: be, live, bent · To what, where: ridges, live hedgehogs, flamingoes, soldiers · 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 (croquet ground, balls, mallets, arches), 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 | 4 ground | det |
| 2 | croquet | croquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ground | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 croquet | punct |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ridges | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ridges | cop |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 ridges | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 ridges | det |
| 8 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 furrows | cc |
| 10 | furrows | furrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ridges | conj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 ridges | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 bumps | punct |
| 13 | bumps | bump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ridges | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dips | cc |
| 15 | dips | dip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bumps | conj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 bumps | punct |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 hedgehogs | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 balls | det |
| 19 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hedgehogs | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 hedgehogs | cop |
| 21 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hedgehogs | amod |
| 22 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ridges | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 live | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mallets | det |
| 25 | mallets | mallet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 live | nsubj |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ridges | conj |
| 27 | flamingoes | flamingoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 live | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 soldiers | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 soldiers | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 arches | det |
| 31 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 soldiers | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 soldiers | cop |
| 33 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 live | conj |
| 34 | bent | bent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 soldiers | acl |
| 35 | double | double | ADV | _ | 34 bent | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ridges | 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 | is a in a quote | present | the croquet ground | all ridges and furrows | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the balls | live hedgehogs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | present | the mallets | flamingoes | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme flamingoe=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the arches | soldiers | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bent | participle | soldiers not said here | double property | 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:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:31.
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): R2-punct-next ×2, 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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