Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 29
Talk in this lesson: «lowkey» = a bit, quietly; «salty» = cross and bitter; «wicked» (New England, USA) = very; «bostin'» (Black Country, England) = great; «our kid» (Manchester) = my brother or sister.
Who acts: you · What happens: talk · To what, where: lesson
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 (you), 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 | _ | 6 « | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 lowkey | punct |
| 7 | lowkey | lowkey | X | _ | 4 lesson | appos |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 lowkey | punct |
| 9 | = | = | SYM | _ | 7 lowkey | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lowkey | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lowkey | punct |
| 13 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 7 lowkey | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 salty | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 salty | punct |
| 16 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lesson | appos |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 salty | punct |
| 18 | = | = | SYM | _ | 16 salty | punct |
| 19 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 salty | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bitter | cc |
| 21 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cross | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 lesson | punct |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 wicked | punct |
| 24 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lesson | appos |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 wicked | punct |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 England | punct |
| 27 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 England | amod |
| 28 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 wicked | dep |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 USA | punct |
| 30 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 England | appos |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 England | punct |
| 32 | = | = | SYM | _ | 36 bostin | punct |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 bostin | advmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 bostin | punct |
| 35 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 36 bostin | punct |
| 36 | bostin | bostin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wicked | obl |
| 37 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 bostin | punct |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 bostin | punct |
| 39 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 41 Country | punct |
| 40 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Country | compound |
| 41 | Country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 » | appos |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 England | punct |
| 43 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 » | appos |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 England | punct |
| 45 | = | = | SYM | _ | 46 great | punct |
| 46 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 bostin | conj |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 55 = | punct |
| 48 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 50 kid | punct |
| 49 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 kid | nmod:poss |
| 50 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wicked | parataxis |
| 51 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 50 kid | punct |
| 52 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 53 Manchester | punct |
| 53 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 kid | appos |
| 54 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 53 Manchester | punct |
| 55 | = | = | SYM | _ | 24 wicked | punct |
| 56 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 brother | nmod:poss |
| 57 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 kid | appos |
| 58 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 59 sister | cc |
| 59 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 brother | conj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | this lesson | 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:29.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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