Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 21
The next verse begins «I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye» (marked = noticed), and tells of the Owl and the Panther sharing a pie.
Who acts: next verse, Mock Turtle, I, Owl · What happens: begin, pass, mark, notice, tell, share · To what, where: pie · 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 (next verse, Mock Turtle, I, Owl), 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 verse | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 verse | amod |
| 3 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begins | nsubj |
| 4 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 7 passed | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begins | ccomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 garden | nmod:poss |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 marked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 marked | cc |
| 13 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 » | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 eye | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 eye | nummod |
| 17 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marked | obl |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 marked | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 marked | punct |
| 20 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 marked | parataxis |
| 21 | = | = | SYM | _ | 22 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 marked | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 marked | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tells | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tells | cc |
| 26 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 marked | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Owl | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Owl | det |
| 29 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tells | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Panther | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Panther | det |
| 32 | Panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Owl | conj |
| 33 | sharing | share | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 Owl | acl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 pie | det |
| 35 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sharing | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | the next verse | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pass in a quote | past | the Mock Turtle = turtle | by poem's garden | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by garden=Location | ||||
| 3 | mark in a quote | past | the Mock Turtle = turtle not said here | with one eye | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mark | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | notice | participle · passive | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | present | I not said here | of the Owl and the Panther | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | share | gerund | the Owl and the Panther not said here | a pie | 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:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:21.
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): no change. 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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