Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 19
The King says the Cat may kiss his hand; the Cat answers «I'd rather not»; the King says «Don't be impertinent» (impertinent = cheeky, rude), and gets behind Alice as he speaks.
Who acts: King, Cat · What happens: say, kiss, not answer, not be, get, speak · To what, where: hand, Alice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body)» 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 (King, Cat), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Cat | det |
| 5 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kiss | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 kiss | aux |
| 7 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kiss | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 answers | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Cat | det |
| 12 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answers | nsubj |
| 13 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 answers | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 answers | nsubj |
| 16 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 answers | aux |
| 17 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 answers | advmod |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 answers | advmod |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 answers | punct |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 says | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 says | nsubj |
| 23 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 impertinent | punct |
| 25 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 impertinent | aux |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 impertinent | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 impertinent | cop |
| 28 | impertinent | impertinent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 says | ccomp |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 impertinent | punct |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 impertinent | punct |
| 31 | impertinent | impertinent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 impertinent | appos |
| 32 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 35 rude | punct |
| 33 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 rude | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 rude | punct |
| 35 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 impertinent | appos |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 impertinent | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gets | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 gets | cc |
| 39 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 40 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 41 Alice | case |
| 41 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 gets | obl |
| 42 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 speaks | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 speaks | nsubj |
| 44 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 gets | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kiss | may | the Cat | Cat's hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | not answer speech: assert | would | the Cat | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | impertinent property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | get | present | the King not said here | Alice | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | speak speech: other | present | Cat | vn talk-37.5 «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:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.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): 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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