Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 19
The Mock Turtle says it «sounds uncommon nonsense» (uncommon = very, in old country talk).
Who acts: Mock Turtle, sluggard · What happens: say, sound · To what, where: uncommon nonsense · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mock Turtle, sluggard), 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 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sounds | nsubj |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounds | punct |
| 7 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nonsense | amod |
| 9 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounds | xcomp |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounds | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 uncommon | punct |
| 12 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 talk | amod |
| 13 | = | = | SYM | _ | 19 talk | punct |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 talk | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 talk | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 talk | case |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 talk | amod |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 talk | compound |
| 19 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | parataxis |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 talk | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Mock Turtle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sound in a quote | present | sluggard | uncommon nonsense | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:19.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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