Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 17

The Gryphon orders «Stand up and repeat "'Tis the voice of the sluggard"» (a sluggard is a lazy person; it was a real poem children learned by heart).

Who acts: sluggard, children · What happens: stand up, repeat, be, learn · To what, where: Tis, lazy person, real poem

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup)» 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 (sluggard, children), 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 orders	det
2	Gryphon	gryphon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 orders	compound
3	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Stand	punct
5	Stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 orders	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 Stand	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 repeat	cc
8	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 Stand	conj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 repeat	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 Tis	punct
11	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 repeat	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 voice	det
13	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Tis	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sluggard	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sluggard	det
16	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 voice	nmod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 sluggard	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 person	punct
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	25 person	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sluggard	det
21	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 person	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 person	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 person	det
24	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 person	amod
25	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 orders	parataxis
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 children	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 poem	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 poem	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 poem	det
30	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 poem	amod
31	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 person	parataxis
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 learned	nsubj
33	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 poem	acl:relcl
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 heart	case
35	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 learned	obl
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 children	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 orders	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand up in a quote	infinitive				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	repeat in a quote	infinitive		Tis		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tis=Eventuality
3	is a	present	a sluggard	a lazy person		tree rules
4	is a	past	sluggard	a real poem		tree rules
5	learn	participle	children	a real poem not said here	by heart	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Topic

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:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:17.

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 ×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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