Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 12
The Gryphon thumps the sobbing Mock Turtle: «Same as if he had a bone in his throat.»
Who acts: Gryphon · What happens: thump, sob, have · To what, where: sobbing Mock Turtle, bone, throat
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 (Gryphon), 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 | 2 Gryphon | det |
| 2 | Gryphon | gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thumps | nsubj |
| 3 | thumps | thump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Turtle | det |
| 5 | sobbing | sob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Turtle | amod |
| 6 | Mock | mock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Turtle | compound |
| 7 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thumps | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 thumps | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 Same | punct |
| 10 | Same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thumps | parataxis |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Same | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bone | det |
| 16 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 throat | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 throat | nmod:poss |
| 19 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bone | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thumps | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 thumps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thump | present | the Gryphon | the sobbing Mock Turtle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sob | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | Gryphon | a bone | Gryphon's throat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson:12.
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, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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