Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 19
When he boasts «we went to school every day», Alice says «I've been to a day-school, too; you needn't be so proud as all that.»
Who acts: book, we, Alice, you · What happens: boast, go, say, be, not be · To what, where: school · 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 (book, we, Alice, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 boasts | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 boasts | nsubj |
| 3 | boasts | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | advcl |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 boasts | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 school | case |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 boasts | punct |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 says | nsubj |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 school | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 school | nsubj |
| 17 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 school | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 school | cop |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 school | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 school | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 school | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 day | punct |
| 23 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 says | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 too | punct |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 says | advmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 proud | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 proud | nsubj |
| 28 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 proud | aux |
| 29 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 proud | advmod |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 proud | cop |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 proud | advmod |
| 32 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 says | ccomp |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 that | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 that | det:predet |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 proud | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 proud | punct |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 32 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | present | book | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | we | school | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Alice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present · perfect | Alice | to a day school | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | present | you | as that; proud property | tree rules |
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:19.
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. 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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