Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 1

Alice wonders if it was only the pepper that made her so savage in the kitchen, and invents a rule of her own: pepper makes people hot-tempered, vinegar makes them sour, and barley-sugar makes children sweet-tempered.

Who acts: Alice, arm, pepper, people, vinegar, barley sugar · What happens: wonder, be, make, invent, temper · To what, where: pepper, Alice, rule, people, children

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» 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 (Alice, arm, pepper, people), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wonders	nsubj
2	wonders	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 pepper	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pepper	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pepper	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 pepper	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pepper	det
8	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wonders	ccomp
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pepper	acl:relcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 savage	advmod
13	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 made	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 kitchen	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kitchen	det
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 savage	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 invents	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 invents	cc
19	invents	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wonders	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rule	det
21	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 invents	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 own	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 own	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rule	nmod
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 makes	punct
26	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 makes	nsubj
27	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 invents	conj
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 makes	obj
29	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tempered	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 hot	punct
31	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 makes	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 makes	punct
33	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 makes	nsubj
34	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 makes	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 makes	obj
36	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 makes	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 makes	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 makes	cc
39	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sugar	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 barley	punct
41	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 makes	nsubj
42	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 makes	conj
43	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 makes	obj
44	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 makes	xcomp
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 sweet	punct
46	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 makes	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wonders	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	Alice			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	arm	the pepper		tree rules
3	make	past	the pepper	Alice	savage property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
4	invent	present	Alice not said here	a rule of Alice's own		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Result
5	make	present	pepper	people		tree rules
6	temper	participle	people not said here			tree rules
7	make	present	vinegar	people	sour property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product
8	make	present	barley sugar	children	sweet property	tree rules
9	temper	participle	children not said here			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:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:1.

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 ×3. 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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