Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 23
More subjects: Mystery, ancient and modern (history), with Seaography (geography); Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils (drawing, sketching and painting in oils), taught by an old conger-eel once a week.
Who acts: Coils · What happens: stretch, draw, teach · To what, where: More subjects
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 (Coils), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 subjects | amod |
| 2 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mystery | punct |
| 4 | Mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 subjects | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ancient | punct |
| 6 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 subjects | parataxis |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 modern | cc |
| 8 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ancient | conj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 history | punct |
| 10 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ancient | conj |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 history | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Seaography | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Seaography | case |
| 14 | Seaography | seaography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Mystery | nmod |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 geography | punct |
| 16 | geography | geography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Seaography | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 geography | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Drawling | punct |
| 19 | Drawling | Drawling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 subjects | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Stretching | punct |
| 21 | Stretching | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 Drawling | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Fainting | cc |
| 23 | Fainting | Fainting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Drawling | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Coils | case |
| 25 | Coils | coil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 subjects | nmod |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 drawing | punct |
| 27 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 Coils | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sketching | punct |
| 29 | sketching | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drawing | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 painting | cc |
| 31 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 drawing | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 oils | case |
| 33 | oils | oil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 painting | obl |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 drawing | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 taught | punct |
| 36 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 subjects | acl:relcl |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 eel | case |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 eel | det |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 eel | amod |
| 40 | conger | conger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 eel | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 conger | punct |
| 42 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 taught | obl |
| 43 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 36 taught | advmod |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 week | det |
| 45 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 once | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 subjects | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | gerund | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | Coils not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | participle | More subjects in Coils not said here | by a old conger eel; once property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:23.
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 ×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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