Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 16
Alice thinks: «I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.»
Who acts: Alice, book · What happens: think, not see, finish, not begin · 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, book), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 see | advmod |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 finish | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 finish | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 finish | aux |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 finish | advmod |
| 13 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 begin | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 begin | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 begin | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 begin | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 begin | advmod |
| 19 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | Alice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | finish in a quote | can | book | ever | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not begin a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | book | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:16.
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): no change. 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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