Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 25

Lessons: «Ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on»; «they're called lessons, because they lessen from day to day» (lessen = get smaller).

Who acts: Lessons · What happens: call, lessen, get · To what, where: Lessons · 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 (Lessons), 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	Lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Lessons	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 hours	punct
4	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lessons	appos
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hours	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nine	punct
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Lessons	nmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 next	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nine	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lessons	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 so	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	1 Lessons	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 so	fixed
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Lessons	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Lessons	punct
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 called	nsubj:pass
21	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux:pass
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Lessons	parataxis
23	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 called	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lessen	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 lessen	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lessen	nsubj
27	lessen	lessen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 called	advcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 day	case
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lessen	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 day	case
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 day	nmod
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 lessen	punct
34	lessen	lessen	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 lessen	conj
35	=	=	SYM	_	36 get	punct
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 lessen	xcomp
37	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 get	xcomp
38	)	)	PUNCT	_	37 smaller	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lessons	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call in a quote	present · passive		Lessons = lesson			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	lessen in a quote	present	Lessons = lesson		day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	lessen	infinitive	Lessons = lesson not said here				tree rules
4	get	infinitive	Lessons = lesson not said here			small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:25.

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 ×2, 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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