Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 22

The regular course: Reeling and Writhing (reading and writing); Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division); the Gryphon asks if she knows what «beautify» is, and Alice says doubtfully «it means—to—make—anything—prettier», so «uglify» must mean the opposite.

Who acts: Gryphon, school, Alice, division · What happens: reeling, ask, know, beautify, be, say · To what, where: anything, opposite · 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 (Gryphon, school, Alice, division), 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	3 course	det
2	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 course	amod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 asks	dislocated
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Reeling	punct
5	Reeling	reeling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 course	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Writhing	cc
7	Writhing	writhing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Reeling	conj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 reading	punct
9	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Reeling	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 writing	cc
11	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reading	conj
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 reading	punct
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 Ambition	punct
14	Ambition	ambition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Reeling	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Distraction	punct
16	Distraction	distraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Ambition	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Uglification	punct
18	Uglification	uglification	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Ambition	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Derision	cc
20	Derision	derision	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Uglification	conj
21	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 addition	punct
22	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Uglification	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 subtraction	punct
24	subtraction	subtraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 addition	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 multiplication	punct
26	multiplication	multiplication	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 addition	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 division	cc
28	division	division	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 multiplication	conj
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 addition	punct
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 Gryphon	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Gryphon	det
32	Gryphon	gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 asks	nsubj
33	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 knows	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 knows	nsubj
36	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 asks	ccomp
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 beautify	obj
38	«	«	PART	_	39 beautify	mark
39	beautify	beautify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 knows	ccomp
40	»	»	PUNCT	_	39 beautify	punct
41	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 asks	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 says	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 says	cc
44	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 says	nsubj
45	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 asks	conj
46	doubtfully	doubtfully	ADV	_	45 says	advmod
47	«	«	PUNCT	_	49 means	punct
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 means	nsubj
49	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 says	ccomp
50	—	-	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 make	case
52	—	-	PUNCT	_	51 to	punct
53	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 means	xcomp
54	—	-	PUNCT	_	55 anything	punct
55	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	53 make	obj
56	—	-	PUNCT	_	53 make	punct
57	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	53 make	xcomp
58	»	»	PUNCT	_	49 means	punct
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 mean	punct
60	so	so	ADV	_	65 mean	advmod
61	«	«	PUNCT	_	62 uglify	punct
62	uglify	uglify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 mean	nsubj
63	»	»	PUNCT	_	62 uglify	punct
64	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 mean	aux
65	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 says	parataxis
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 opposite	det
67	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 mean	obj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 asks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reeling	gerund				tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present	the Gryphon		the regular course dislocated	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know a condition, not said to happen	present	school			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	beautify in a quote	infinitive				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent what=Patient
5	be	present				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	present	Alice		doubtfully property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	mean in a quote	present	division			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	make not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	division not said here	anything	pretty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset anything=Product
9	uglify in a quote	infinitive				tree rules
10	mean	must		the opposite		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic

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:22.

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 ×3, 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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