Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 19

The Duchess says she won't put her arm round Alice's waist because she is «doubtful about the temper of your flamingo».

Who acts: Duchess · What happens: say, not put, be, temper · To what, where: arm, flamingo · 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 (Duchess), 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 Duchess	det
2	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	nsubj
5	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 put	advmod
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arm	nmod:poss
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
10	round	round	ADP	_	13 waist	case
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 waist	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Alice	case
13	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 doubtful	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 doubtful	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 doubtful	cop
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 doubtful	punct
18	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 put	advcl
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 temper	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 temper	det
21	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 doubtful	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 flamingo	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 flamingo	nmod:poss
24	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 temper	nmod
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 doubtful	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Duchess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not put	future	Duchess	Duchess's arm	round Alice's waist	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal
3	is in a quote	present	Duchess		about the temper of your flamingo; doubtful property	tree rules
4	temper in a quote			your flamingo		nom temper «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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:19.

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): 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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