Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 24
The Classics master was an old crab who taught «Laughing and Grief» (Latin and Greek, the languages studied as «classics»); remembering him, «both creatures hid their faces in their paws».
Who acts: Classics master, old crab, languages, creatures · What happens: be, teach, study, remember, hide · To what, where: old crab, Laughing, Greek, faces, paws · 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 (Classics master, old crab, languages, creatures), 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 master | det |
| 2 | Classics | classic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 master | compound |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crab | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crab | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crab | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crab | amod |
| 7 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hid | parataxis |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 taught | nsubj |
| 9 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crab | acl:relcl |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 Laughing | punct |
| 11 | Laughing | laugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 taught | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Grief | cc |
| 13 | Grief | Grief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Laughing | conj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 Laughing | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Latin | punct |
| 16 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Laughing | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Greek | cc |
| 18 | Greek | Greek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Latin | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 studied | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 languages | det |
| 21 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 studied | nsubj |
| 22 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 crab | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 classics | case |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 classics | punct |
| 25 | classics | classic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 studied | obl |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 classics | punct |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 studied | punct |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 remembering | punct |
| 29 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 crab | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 remembering | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hid | punct |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 35 hid | punct |
| 33 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 creatures | det |
| 34 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hid | nsubj |
| 35 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 faces | nmod:poss |
| 37 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hid | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 paws | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 paws | nmod:poss |
| 40 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hid | obl |
| 41 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 35 hid | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 crab | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Classics master | a old crab | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | a old crab | Laughing and Grief and Latin and Greek | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent laugh=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | study | past | the languages | as classics | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as classic=Value | ||||
| 4 | remember | gerund | the Classics master not said here | Greek | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hide in a quote | past | both creatures | languages's faces | languages's paws | 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:24.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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