Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 3
They find the Mock Turtle sitting sad and lonely on a ledge of rock, sighing as if his heart would break.
Who acts: beheadings, Mock Turtle, heart · What happens: find, sit, sigh, break · To what, where: Mock Turtle, ledge
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 (beheadings, Mock Turtle, heart), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Turtle | det |
| 4 | Mock | mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Turtle | compound |
| 5 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 6 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 find | xcomp |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sitting | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lonely | cc |
| 9 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sad | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ledge | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ledge | det |
| 12 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rock | case |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ledge | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sighing | punct |
| 16 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sitting | advcl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 break | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 break | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 break | aux |
| 22 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sighing | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | beheadings = beheading | the Mock Turtle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent turtle=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | the Mock Turtle not said here | a ledge of rock | sad property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ledge=Location | |||
| 3 | sigh | gerund | the Mock Turtle not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | break | would | lion's heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:3.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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