Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 30

Mock turtle soup was a real Victorian dish: a cheaper copy of turtle soup, usually made from a calf's head; «mock» means pretend.

Who acts: Mock turtle soup, mock · What happens: be, make, mean, pretend, copy · To what, where: real Victorian dish, cheaper copy, head, turtle soup

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 (Mock turtle soup, mock), 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	Mock	mock	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soup	amod
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soup	compound
3	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dish	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dish	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dish	amod
7	Victorian	victorian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dish	amod
8	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 copy	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 copy	det
11	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 copy	amod
12	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dish	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 soup	case
14	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 soup	compound
15	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 copy	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
17	usually	usually	ADV	_	18 made	advmod
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 copy	acl
19	from	from	ADP	_	23 head	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 calf	det
21	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 head	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 calf	case
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 dish	punct
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 mock	punct
26	mock	mock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 means	nsubj
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 mock	punct
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dish	conj
29	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 means	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dish	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mock turtle soup	a real Victorian dish			tree rules
2	make	participle		a cheaper copy of turtle soup not said here	a calf's head	usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from head=Material
3	mean	present	mock				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pretend not said to happen	infinitive	mock not said here				tree rules
5	copy			turtle soup			nom copy «communication 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:30.

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, R7-rel-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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