Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 21

Extras at the sea school: «French, music, and washing»; Alice's school taught French and music but not washing, and she says «You couldn't have wanted it much, living at the bottom of the sea.» «Extras» were lessons parents paid more for.

Who acts: school, You, Extras, parents · What happens: teach, not wash, say, not want, live, be · To what, where: French, washing, bottom, lessons, more · 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 (school, You, Extras, parents), 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	Extras	extra	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 lessons	dislocated
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 school	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 school	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 school	compound
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Extras	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 French	punct
7	«	«	ADP	_	8 French	case
8	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 school	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 music	punct
10	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 French	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 washing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 washing	cc
13	washing	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 music	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 French	punct
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 taught	punct
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 school	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Alice	case
18	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taught	nsubj
19	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Extras	parataxis
20	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 taught	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 music	cc
22	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 French	conj
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 washing	cc
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 washing	advmod
25	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 taught	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 says	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 says	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 says	nsubj
29	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 taught	conj
30	«	«	SCONJ	_	35 wanted	mark
31	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 wanted	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 wanted	aux
33	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 wanted	advmod
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 wanted	aux
35	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 says	ccomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 wanted	obj
37	much	much	ADV	_	35 wanted	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 living	punct
39	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 wanted	advcl
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 bottom	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bottom	det
42	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 living	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 sea	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sea	det
45	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bottom	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Extras	punct
47	»	»	PUNCT	_	49 Extras	punct
48	«	«	PUNCT	_	49 Extras	punct
49	Extras	extra	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 lessons	nsubj
50	»	»	PUNCT	_	49 Extras	punct
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 lessons	cop
52	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
53	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 paid	nsubj
54	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 lessons	acl:relcl
55	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	54 paid	obj
56	for	for	ADP	_	54 paid	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Extras	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	Alice's school		French and music			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent french=Recipient
2	not wash	gerund	Alice's school not said here					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	school					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not want in a quote	could · perfect	You	washing = wash				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	live in a quote	gerund	You not said here			the bottom of the sea		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location
6	is a	past	Extras	lessons			Extras at the sea school « French and music and washing dislocated	tree rules
7	pay	past	parents	more				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset

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:21.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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