Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 1
The Gryphon chuckles: it's all her fancy, «they never executes nobody».
Who acts: Gryphon, executions · What happens: chuckle, be, not execute · To what, where: fancy, nobody
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 (Gryphon, executions), 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 Gryphon | det |
| 2 | Gryphon | gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chuckles | nsubj |
| 3 | chuckles | chuckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 fancy | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fancy | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fancy | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 fancy | advmod |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chuckles | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 executes | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 executes | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 executes | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 executes | advmod |
| 14 | executes | execute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chuckles | conj |
| 15 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 executes | obj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 executes | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chuckles | 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 | chuckle | present | the Gryphon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Gryphon | eagle's fancy | all property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not execute in a quote | present | executions = execution | nobody | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=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:018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.lesson:1.
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, R7-rel-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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