Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 8

Whenever Alice asks a sensible question, the two creatures call her dull and tell her to be ashamed, and Alice feels ready to sink into the earth.

Who acts: Alice, two creatures · What happens: ask, call, tell, feel, sink · To what, where: sensible question, Alice, earth · 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 (Alice, two 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	Whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	3 asks	mark
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 call	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 question	det
5	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 question	amod
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 call	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 creatures	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 creatures	nummod
10	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 call	nsubj
11	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 call	obj
13	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 call	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 call	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 ashamed	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 ashamed	aux:pass
19	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tell	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 feels	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 feels	cc
22	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 feels	nsubj
23	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 call	conj
24	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feels	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sink	mark
26	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ready	xcomp
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 earth	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 earth	det
29	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sink	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 call	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Alice	a sensible question				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	call	present	the two creatures		Alice		dull property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent her=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	present	the two creatures not said here		Alice		ashamed property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	feel	present	Alice				ready property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	sink	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			the earth		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient 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:8.

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. 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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