Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 5

The Mock Turtle tells them to sit and not speak until he has finished — and then says nothing for ages, until at last: «Once I was a real Turtle.»

Who acts: Mock Turtle, Turtle · What happens: tell, sit, not speak, finish, say, be · To what, where: beheadings, nothing, real Turtle · 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 (Mock Turtle, Turtle), 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 Turtle	det
2	Mock	mock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Turtle	compound
3	Turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tells	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sit	mark
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tells	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 speak	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 speak	advmod
10	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sit	conj
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 finished	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 finished	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 finished	aux
14	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 sit	advcl
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 says	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 says	advmod
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tells	conj
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 says	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 ages	case
21	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 says	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 last	punct
23	until	until	ADP	_	25 last	case
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 says	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 last	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 Turtle	punct
28	Once	once	SCONJ	_	33 Turtle	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 Turtle	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 Turtle	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 Turtle	det
32	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Turtle	amod
33	Turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Mock Turtle		beheadings = beheading		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Mock Turtle not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not speak speech: other	infinitive	the Mock Turtle not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	finish	present · perfect	Turtle				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert	present	the Mock Turtle not said here	nothing		for ages; then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
6	is a in a quote	past	the Mock Turtle = turtle	a real Turtle			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:5.

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 ×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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