Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 5
«I make you a present of everything I've said,» says the Duchess, and Alice thinks: a cheap sort of present!
Who acts: Duchess, Alice · What happens: make, say, think, sort · To what, where: present, you, cheap sort · 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 (Duchess, 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 present | det |
| 6 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 everything | case |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 present | nmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 10 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | aux |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 everything | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Duchess | det |
| 16 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 says | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thinks | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thinks | cc |
| 19 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 thinks | nsubj |
| 20 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 sort | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sort | det |
| 23 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sort | amod |
| 24 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thinks | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 present | case |
| 26 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sort | nmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present | the Duchess = duchess | a present of everything | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | the Duchess = duchess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the Duchess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | Alice | a cheap sort of present | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sort=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sort | present | nom sort «cognition 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:5.
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 ×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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