Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 9
The Queen asks Alice if she can play croquet: «Yes!»
Who acts: Queen · What happens: ask, play · To what, where: Alice, croquet
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 (Queen), 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 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | obj |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 play | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 play | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 play | aux |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asks | advcl |
| 9 | croquet | croquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 play | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yes | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yes | punct |
| 12 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 asks | discourse |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yes | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the Queen | Alice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | play a condition, not said to happen | can | Queen | croquet | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croquet=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:9.
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): 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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