Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 32
As they walk off, the King says quietly to the company «You are all pardoned», and Alice is glad, because she had felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.
Who acts: soldiers, King, Alice, Queen · What happens: walk off, say, pardon, be, feel, order · To what, where: company, executions · 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 (soldiers, King, Alice, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 walk | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walk | nsubj |
| 3 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | advcl |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 walk | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 walk | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 8 says | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 company | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 company | det |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obl |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 pardoned | punct |
| 14 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 pardoned | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 pardoned | aux:pass |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 pardoned | advmod |
| 17 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 says | ccomp |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 pardoned | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 glad | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 glad | cc |
| 21 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 glad | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 glad | cop |
| 23 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 says | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 felt | punct |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 felt | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 felt | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 felt | aux |
| 28 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 glad | advcl |
| 29 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 30 unhappy | advmod |
| 30 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 felt | xcomp |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 number | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 number | det |
| 33 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 unhappy | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 executions | case |
| 35 | executions | execution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 number | nmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Queen | det |
| 37 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 ordered | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 ordered | aux |
| 39 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 executions | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk off | present | soldiers = soldier | off property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the King | the company | quietly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to company=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | pardon in a quote | present · passive | the company = company | all property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Alice | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | past · perfect | Alice | unhappy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | order | past · perfect | the Queen | executions not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent execution=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:32.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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