Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 20

The old Turtle master was called Tortoise «because he taught us»: say «taught us» quickly and it sounds like «tortoise».

Who acts: book, master · What happens: call, teach, say, sound · To what, where: old Turtle master, us · 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, master), 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	4 master	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 master	amod
3	Turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 master	compound
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	aux:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 taught	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 taught	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 taught	nsubj
11	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	advcl
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 taught	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 taught	punct
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 taught	conj
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 taught	punct
17	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 say	ccomp
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 taught	obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 taught	punct
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	17 taught	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sounds	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sounds	nsubj
23	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 called	conj
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 tortoise	case
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 tortoise	punct
26	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sounds	obl
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 tortoise	punct
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past · passive		the old Turtle master			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	teach speech: other in a quote	past	book		us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	book not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	teach speech: other in a quote	past			us	quickly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
5	sound	present	master			like tortoise	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:20.

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 ×2. 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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