Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 9
Out of breath, the Queen asks Alice if she has seen the Mock Turtle, «the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from», and takes her to meet him.
Who acts: Queen, thing · What happens: ask, see, make, take, meet · To what, where: Alice, breath, Mock Turtle, Mock Turtle Soup, », Queen · 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, thing), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 3 breath | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 breath | case |
| 3 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asks | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 breath | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asks | nsubj |
| 7 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asks | obj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 seen | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 asks | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Turtle | det |
| 14 | Mock | mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Turtle | compound |
| 15 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Turtle | appos |
| 20 | Mock | mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Soup | compound |
| 21 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Soup | compound |
| 22 | Soup | Soup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 made | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | aux:pass |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 thing | acl:relcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 » | case |
| 26 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 takes | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 takes | cc |
| 29 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 asks | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 takes | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 meet | mark |
| 32 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 takes | xcomp |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 meet | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the Queen | Alice | breath | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient | |||
| 2 | see a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | Queen | the Mock Turtle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turtle=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present · passive | the thing not said here | Mock Turtle Soup | » | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from »=Material | |||
| 4 | take | present | the Queen not said here | Queen | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | Soup | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
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:9.
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, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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