Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 29
After half an hour all the players except the King, the Queen and Alice are «in custody» (arrested); the soldiers who held them can no longer be arches.
Who acts: players, soldiers · What happens: be, arrest, hold · To what, where: custody », soldiers, arches
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 (players, soldiers), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 hour | det:predet |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hour | det |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 « | obl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 players | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 players | det |
| 7 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 « | nsubj |
| 8 | except | except | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 players | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hour | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 King | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Alice | cc |
| 15 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Queen | conj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 « | cop |
| 17 | « | « | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 » | case |
| 19 | custody | custody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 » | compound |
| 20 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 « | obl |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 arrested | punct |
| 22 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 » | acl |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 arrested | punct |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 arches | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 soldiers | det |
| 26 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 arches | nsubj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 held | nsubj |
| 28 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 soldiers | acl:relcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 held | obj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 arches | aux |
| 31 | no | no | ADV | _ | 32 longer | advmod |
| 32 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 arches | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 arches | cop |
| 34 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 « | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 « | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | all players except the King and the Queen and Alice | custody » | hour | « property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | arrest | participle | custody » not said here | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | the soldiers | soldiers = soldier | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | can | the soldiers | arches | long property | tree rules |
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:29.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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