Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobster Quadrille (poems gone wrong and Beautiful Soup), sentence 4
The Gryphon orders her to stand up and recite «'Tis the voice of the sluggard».
Who acts: Gryphon · What happens: order, stand up, recite, it · To what, where: Alice, voice · 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 (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 orders | nsubj |
| 3 | orders | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 orders | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stand | mark |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 orders | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 stand | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 recite | cc |
| 9 | recite | recite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stand | conj |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tis | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tis | punct |
| 12 | Tis | it | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 recite | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Tis | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sluggard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sluggard | det |
| 17 | sluggard | sluggard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 voice | nmod |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tis | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 orders | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | present | the Gryphon | Alice | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stand up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Gryphon not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | recite | infinitive | the Gryphon not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | it in a quote | infinitive | the Gryphon not said here | the voice of the sluggard | 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:4.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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