Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobster Quadrille (a dance, a whiting and a porpoise), sentence 6
The Mock Turtle thinks «Dinn» must be a place.
Who acts: Mock Turtle, Dinn · What happens: think, be · To what, where: place · 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, Dinn), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Turtle | compound |
| 3 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | nsubj |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dinn | punct |
| 6 | Dinn | Dinn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 place | nsubj |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dinn | punct |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 place | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 place | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | the Mock Turtle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | must | Dinn | a place | 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:6.
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): R8-pos-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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