Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 17

There are twelve jurors, some animals and some birds, so Alice calls them «creatures»; she is proud of knowing the word «jurors», because she thinks very few little girls of her age know what it means, though «jury-men» would have done as well.

Who acts: twelve jurors, Alice, jury, few little girls, it, jury men · What happens: be, call, know, think, mean, do · To what, where: jurors, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness)» 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 (twelve jurors, Alice, jury, few little girls), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 jurors	nummod
4	jurors	juror	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 animals	punct
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 animals	det
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jurors	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 birds	cc
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 birds	det
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jurors	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 calls	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 calls	advmod
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 calls	nsubj
14	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 calls	obj
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 creatures	punct
17	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 calls	xcomp
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 creatures	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 proud	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 proud	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 proud	cop
22	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 calls	conj
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 knowing	mark
24	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 proud	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 word	det
26	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knowing	obj
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 jurors	punct
28	jurors	juror	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 word	appos
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 jurors	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thinks	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 thinks	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thinks	nsubj
33	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 proud	advcl
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 few	advmod
35	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 girls	amod
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 girls	amod
37	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 know	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 age	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 age	nmod:poss
40	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 girls	nmod
41	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 thinks	ccomp
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 means	obj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 means	nsubj
44	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 know	ccomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 men	punct
46	though	though	SCONJ	_	54 done	mark
47	«	«	PUNCT	_	50 men	punct
48	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 men	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 jury	punct
50	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 done	nsubj
51	»	»	PUNCT	_	50 men	punct
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 done	aux
53	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 done	aux
54	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 means	advcl
55	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	54 done	advmod
56	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 as	fixed
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	twelve jurors and some animals and some birds		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	present	Alice	jurors = juror			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	is	present	jury			proud property	tree rules
4	know	gerund	jury not said here	the word			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	present	jury				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	know	present	few little girls of jury's age				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	mean	present	it				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
8	do	would · perfect	jury men				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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