Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 25
«I've a right to think,» says Alice; «Just about as much right as pigs have to fly,» says the Duchess — then the Queen appears and her voice dies away.
Who acts: Duchess, Alice, pigs, Queen, voice · What happens: think, say, have, fly, appear, die away · 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, Alice, pigs, Queen), 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 | _ | 3 've | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 've | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 says | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 right | det |
| 5 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 've | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 think | mark |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 right | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | parataxis |
| 11 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 says | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 14 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 15 about | advmod |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 have | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 about | advmod |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 21 have | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 20 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 says | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 fly | mark |
| 23 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 have | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 've | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 says | punct |
| 26 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Duchess | det |
| 28 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 says | nsubj |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 appears | punct |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 appears | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Queen | det |
| 32 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 appears | nsubj |
| 33 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 says | advcl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 dies | cc |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 voice | nmod:poss |
| 36 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dies | nsubj |
| 37 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 appears | conj |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 dies | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the Duchess not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | pigs | about, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly in a quote | to-infinitive | pigs not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | the Duchess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | appear | present | the Queen | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | die away | present | Duchess's voice | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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:25.
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 ×2. 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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