Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 32
Talk in this lesson: «lush» (Wales) = lovely; «proper job» (West Country) = well done; «it's giving» = it looks like, it's showing off; «yeah nah» (Australia, NZ) = no.
Who acts: you, ground, it · What happens: talk, do, give, look, show off · To what, where: lesson · 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 (you, ground, it), 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 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 lush | punct |
| 7 | lush | lush | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Talk | conj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 lush | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wales | punct |
| 10 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lush | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wales | punct |
| 12 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 13 lovely | punct |
| 13 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lush | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 job | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 job | punct |
| 16 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 job | amod |
| 17 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lovely | appos |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 job | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 Country | punct |
| 20 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Country | compound |
| 21 | Country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 job | appos |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 Country | punct |
| 23 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 25 done | punct |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 done | advmod |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 lovely | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 no. | punct |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 giving | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 giving | nsubj |
| 29 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 giving | aux |
| 30 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 giving | punct |
| 32 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 30 giving | punct |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 looks | nsubj |
| 34 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 giving | parataxis |
| 35 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 39 showing | mark |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 like | punct |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 showing | nsubj |
| 38 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 showing | aux |
| 39 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 looks | advcl |
| 40 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 showing | compound:prt |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 giving | punct |
| 42 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 giving | punct |
| 43 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 30 giving | discourse |
| 44 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 45 » | discourse |
| 45 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 giving | punct |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 Australia | punct |
| 47 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 nah | appos |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 NZ | punct |
| 49 | NZ | NZ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Australia | conj |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 Australia | punct |
| 51 | = | = | SYM | _ | 30 giving | dep |
| 52 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 1 Talk | parataxis |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | this lesson | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | participle | you not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present · progressive | ground | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | present | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | show off | present · progressive | ground | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:32.
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. 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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