Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 11

«I mean what I say,» answers the Mock Turtle, offended — the very words that tangled Alice up at the tea-party.

Who acts: Mock Turtle, very words · What happens: mean, say, answer, tangle up · To what, where: Alice, tea party · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise)» 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, very words), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 answers	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answers	advcl
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mean	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 answers	punct
9	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Turtle	det
11	Mock	mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Turtle	compound
12	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answers	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Turtle	punct
14	offended	offended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Turtle	amod
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 words	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 words	det
17	very	very	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 words	amod
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Turtle	appos
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 tangled	nsubj
20	tangled	tangle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 words	acl:relcl
21	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 tangled	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 tangled	compound:prt
23	at	at	ADP	_	27 party	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 party	det
25	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 party	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 tea	punct
27	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tangled	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present	the Mock Turtle = turtle			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the Mock Turtle = turtle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	answer speech: assert	present	the Mock Turtle			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tangle up	past	the very words	Alice	the tea party	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:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson:11.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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