Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 9
The school subjects are all school words gone wrong: Reeling and Writhing (reading and writing), Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), Mystery and Seaography, Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils, and Laughing and Grief.
Who acts: school subjects · What happens: be, go, stretch · To what, where: school words
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 (school subjects), 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 subjects | det |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 subjects | compound |
| 3 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 words | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 words | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 words | advmod |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 words | compound |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 words | acl |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gone | xcomp |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Reeling | punct |
| 11 | Reeling | reeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 words | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Writhing | cc |
| 13 | Writhing | writhing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Reeling | conj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 reading | punct |
| 15 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Reeling | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 writing | cc |
| 17 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reading | conj |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 reading | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ambition | punct |
| 20 | Ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Reeling | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Distraction | punct |
| 22 | Distraction | distraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Ambition | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Uglification | punct |
| 24 | Uglification | uglification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Reeling | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Derision | cc |
| 26 | Derision | derision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Uglification | conj |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 addition | punct |
| 28 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Uglification | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 subtraction | punct |
| 30 | subtraction | subtraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 addition | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 multiplication | punct |
| 32 | multiplication | multiplication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 addition | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 division | cc |
| 34 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 multiplication | conj |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 addition | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Mystery | punct |
| 37 | Mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Reeling | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Seaography | cc |
| 39 | Seaography | seaography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Mystery | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Drawling | punct |
| 41 | Drawling | Drawling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Mystery | appos |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Stretching | punct |
| 43 | Stretching | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 Drawling | appos |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 Fainting | cc |
| 45 | Fainting | Fainting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Drawling | conj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 Coils | case |
| 47 | Coils | coil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 Fainting | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 Laughing | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 Laughing | cc |
| 50 | Laughing | laughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Reeling | conj |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 Grief | cc |
| 52 | Grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 Laughing | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 words | 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 | present | the school subjects | school words | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | participle | school words not said here | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stretch | gerund | vn bend-45.2 «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:9.
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, 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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