Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 13
Alice's new rule: pepper makes people hot-tempered, vinegar sour, camomile bitter, and barley-sugar (a hard sweet) makes children sweet-tempered.
Who acts: pepper, people, children, Alice · What happens: make, temper, rule · To what, where: 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 (pepper, people, children, Alice), 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 | 4 rule | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Alice | case |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rule | amod |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
| 6 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rule | parataxis |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 makes | obj |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 hot | punct |
| 11 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sour | punct |
| 13 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sour | compound |
| 14 | sour | sour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rule | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bitter | punct |
| 16 | camomile | camomile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bitter | compound |
| 17 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rule | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sugar | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sugar | cc |
| 20 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sugar | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 barley | punct |
| 22 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rule | conj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 sweet | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sweet | det |
| 25 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sweet | amod |
| 26 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sugar | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 sweet | punct |
| 28 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rule | parataxis |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 makes | obj |
| 30 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 makes | xcomp |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 sweet | punct |
| 32 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 makes | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | pepper | people | hot property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | temper | participle | people not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | present | children | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | temper | participle | children not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | rule | Alice | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:13.
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, 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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