Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 12

The Gryphon says of the Queen: «It's all her fancy, that: they never executes nobody, you know.» Its grammar is country talk; in standard English: they never execute anybody.

Who acts: Gryphon, stories, you, grammar · What happens: say, be, not execute, know · To what, where: fancy, nobody, country talk, anybody · 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 (Gryphon, stories, you, grammar), 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 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Queen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Queen	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 fancy	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fancy	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fancy	cop
11	all	all	ADV	_	13 fancy	advmod
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fancy	nmod:poss
13	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Queen	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fancy	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 Queen	nmod:unmarked
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 executes	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 executes	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 executes	advmod
19	executes	execute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
20	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 executes	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
26	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 grammar	nmod:poss
27	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 talk	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 talk	cop
29	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 talk	compound
30	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 know	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 English	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 English	case
33	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 English	amod
34	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 execute	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 execute	nsubj
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 execute	advmod
38	execute	execute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
39	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 execute	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Gryphon		of the Queen that	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	Gryphon	Queen's fancy	all property	tree rules
3	not execute in a quote	present	stories = story	nobody		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient
4	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	Gryphon's grammar	country talk		tree rules
6	not execute	present	stories = story	anybody		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=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:12.

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): 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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