Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 16

The book also calls her «very ugly»: judging people by their looks is an old habit we do not admire today.

Who acts: book, judging, we · What happens: call, judge, be, not admire · To what, where: Duchess, people, old habit · 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 (book, judging, we), 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 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calls	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 calls	advmod
4	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 calls	obj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 ugly	punct
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 ugly	advmod
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 calls	xcomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 ugly	punct
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 habit	punct
11	judging	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 habit	csubj
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 judging	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 looks	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 looks	nmod:poss
15	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 judging	obl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 habit	cop
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 habit	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 habit	amod
19	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calls	parataxis
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 admire	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 admire	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 admire	advmod
23	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 habit	acl:relcl
24	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 admire	obl:unmarked
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 calls	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present	the book		Duchess		ugly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent her=Recipient
2	judge	gerund		people			by people's looks	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent people=Value
3	is a	present	judging	a old habit				tree rules
4	not admire	present · do-support	we	a old habit not said here		today		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer habit=Stimulus

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:16.

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): no change. 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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