Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 15
«This here young lady, she wants for to know your history, she do» is the Gryphon's country way of saying: this young lady wants to know your story.
Who acts: Alice, young lady, country way · What happens: want, know, do, be, say · To what, where: history, country way, story · 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 (Alice, young lady, country way), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 way | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 lady | det |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lady | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 way | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lady | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wants | nsubj |
| 8 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lady | parataxis |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wants | advcl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 history | nmod:poss |
| 13 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | conj |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 way | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 way | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Gryphon | det |
| 20 | Gryphon | gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 way | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Gryphon | case |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 way | compound |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 saying | mark |
| 25 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 way | acl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 wants | punct |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 lady | det |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lady | amod |
| 29 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wants | nsubj |
| 30 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 saying | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 know | mark |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wants | xcomp |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 story | nmod:poss |
| 34 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 know | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | Alice | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | your history | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer history=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | Alice | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | this young lady | the Gryphon's country way | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Gryphon's country way not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | want | present | this young lady | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | this young lady not said here | your story | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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:15.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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