Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 0
The Queen wakes a Gryphon sleeping in the sun (a creature that is half eagle, half lion), orders it to take Alice to the Mock Turtle, and goes off to see about «some executions».
Who acts: Queen, Gryphon, creature · What happens: wake, sleeping, be, order, take, go off · To what, where: Gryphon, sun, eagle, Alice, Mock Turtle
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea)» 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, Gryphon, creature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wakes | nsubj |
| 3 | wakes | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Gryphon | det |
| 5 | Gryphon | gryphon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wakes | obj |
| 6 | sleeping | sleeping | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Gryphon | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sleeping | obl |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 creature | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 creature | det |
| 12 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Gryphon | appos |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 eagle | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 eagle | cop |
| 15 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 eagle | advmod |
| 16 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 creature | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lion | punct |
| 18 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 lion | compound |
| 19 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eagle | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 lion | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 orders | punct |
| 22 | orders | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wakes | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 orders | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 orders | xcomp |
| 26 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Turtle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Turtle | det |
| 29 | Mock | mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Turtle | compound |
| 30 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 goes | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 goes | cc |
| 33 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wakes | conj |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 33 goes | compound:prt |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 see | mark |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 goes | advcl |
| 37 | about | about | ADP | _ | 40 executions | case |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 40 executions | punct |
| 39 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 executions | det |
| 40 | executions | execution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 see | obl |
| 41 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 40 executions | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wakes | 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 | wake | present | the Queen | a Gryphon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gryphon=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sleeping | gerund | a Gryphon not said here | the sun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a creature | eagle | half property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | order | present | the Queen not said here | Gryphon | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | Alice | the Mock Turtle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent alice=Theme to turtle=Destination | |||
| 6 | go off | present | the Queen not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | about some executions | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.lesson:0.
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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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