Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 14

«Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it,» says the Duchess; a moral is the lesson a story teaches.

Who acts: Everything, you, Duchess, moral, story · What happens: get, find, say, be, teach · To what, where: moral, lesson · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Everything, you, Duchess, moral), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
2	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 got	nsubj
3	's	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 says	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moral	det
6	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 find	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 find	mark
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 find	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 find	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 find	aux
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 find	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Duchess	det
18	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 lesson	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 moral	det
21	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lesson	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lesson	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lesson	det
24	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 says	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 story	det
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 teaches	nsubj
27	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lesson	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · perfect	Everything	a moral	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moral=Stimulus
2	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	moral	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	say speech: assert	present	the Duchess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a	present	a moral	the lesson	tree rules
5	teach speech: other	present	a story	the lesson not said here	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lesson=Recipient

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:14.

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 ×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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