Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 28
While the Queen was away, the other guests had been resting in the shade; they hurry back to the game the moment they see her.
Who acts: Queen, other guests, guests · What happens: be, rest, hurry, see · To what, where: shade, Queen
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 (Queen, other guests, guests), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 away | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 away | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 away | cop |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 away | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guests | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 guests | amod |
| 9 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 resting | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 resting | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 resting | aux |
| 12 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 away | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 shade | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shade | det |
| 15 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resting | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 hurry | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hurry | nsubj |
| 18 | hurry | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 resting | parataxis |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 hurry | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 game | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 game | det |
| 22 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 back | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 moment | det |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hurry | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 moment | acl:relcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 resting | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Queen | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rest | past · perfect · progressive | the other guests | the shade | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in shade=Location | ||||
| 3 | hurry | present | guests = guest | moment | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | present | guests = guest | Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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:28.
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): R6-punct-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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