Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 10

Lessons lasted ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on: «That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lessen from day to day.» Alice works out that the eleventh day must have been a holiday, but when she asks about the twelfth, the Gryphon quickly changes the subject.

Who acts: Lessons, That, reason, Alice, eleventh day, Gryphon · What happens: last, be, call, lessen, work out, ask · To what, where: nine, reason, Lessons, holiday, subject · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Lessons, That, reason, 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	Lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lasted	nsubj
2	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hours	nummod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lasted	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lasted	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nine	punct
9	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lasted	obl:unmarked
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 next	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nine	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 so	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 so	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	2 lasted	conj
15	on	on	ADV	_	14 so	fixed
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 lasted	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 reason	punct
18	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 reason	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 reason	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reason	det
21	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lasted	parataxis
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 called	nsubj:pass
23	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 called	aux:pass
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 reason	acl
25	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 called	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lessen	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 lessen	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lessen	nsubj
29	lessen	lessen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lasted	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 day	case
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lessen	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 day	case
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 day	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lasted	punct
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 lasted	punct
36	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 works	nsubj
37	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lasted	parataxis
38	out	out	ADP	_	37 works	compound:prt
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 holiday	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 day	det
41	eleventh	eleventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 day	amod
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 holiday	nsubj
43	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 holiday	aux
44	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 holiday	aux
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 holiday	cop
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 holiday	det
47	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 works	ccomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 changes	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	60 changes	cc
50	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 asks	advmod
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 asks	nsubj
52	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 changes	advcl
53	about	about	ADP	_	55 twelfth	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 twelfth	det
55	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 asks	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 asks	punct
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 Gryphon	det
58	Gryphon	gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 changes	nsubj
59	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	60 changes	advmod
60	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 works	conj
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 subject	det
62	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 changes	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lasted	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	last	past	Lessons	nine	day; hour		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	That	the reason			tree rules
3	call in a quote	present · passive	the reason not said here	Lessons = lesson			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	lessen in a quote	present	Lessons = lesson		day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	work out	present	Alice				vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	must · perfect	the eleventh day	a holiday			tree rules
7	ask speech: ask	present	Alice			about the twelfth	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about twelfth=Topic
8	change	present	the Gryphon	the subject		quickly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:10.

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 ×3, 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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