Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 6
Suddenly the Queen stands in front of them, frowning like a thunderstorm: «either you or your head must be off».
Who acts: Queen, you · What happens: stand, frown, be · To what, where: front · 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 (Queen, you), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 stands | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 front | case |
| 6 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 front | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 frowning | punct |
| 10 | frowning | frown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stands | advcl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 thunderstorm | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thunderstorm | det |
| 13 | thunderstorm | thunderstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frowning | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 « | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 off | punct |
| 16 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 17 you | cc:preconj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 off | nsubj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 head | cc |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 you | conj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 off | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 off | cop |
| 23 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 stands | parataxis |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | the Queen | front of people | suddenly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | frown | gerund | the Queen not said here | like a thunderstorm | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | must | you | off 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:6.
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. 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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