Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 3
She keeps leaning her very sharp chin on Alice's shoulder, which Alice bears politely, though she doesn't like it.
Who acts: sugar, Alice · What happens: keep, lean, bear, not like · To what, where: sharp chin, shoulder, chin
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 (sugar, Alice), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | leaning | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sharp | advmod |
| 6 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chin | amod |
| 7 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaning | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shoulder | case |
| 9 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Alice | case |
| 11 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaning | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bears | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 bears | obj |
| 14 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 bears | nsubj |
| 15 | bears | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shoulder | acl:relcl |
| 16 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 15 bears | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 like | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 like | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 like | nsubj |
| 20 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 like | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 like | advmod |
| 22 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bears | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 like | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | sugar | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lean | gerund | sugar not said here | sugar's sharp chin | Alice's shoulder | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chin=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |||
| 3 | bear | present | Alice | Alice's shoulder | politely property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | |||
| 4 | not like | present · do-support | Alice | chin | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
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:3.
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): R5-strong ×3. 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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