Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 3
Alice is pleased to know the names of things from books: the judge is the King, because of his great wig (with his crown on top, which looks most uncomfortable), and the twelve creatures in the jury-box are the jurors.
Who acts: Alice, judge, crown, twelve creatures · What happens: be, know, look, name, crown · To what, where: names, King, jurors, things, top
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 (Alice, judge, crown, twelve creatures), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | cop |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pleased | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 names | det |
| 7 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 know | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 names | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 books | case |
| 11 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 things | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 King | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 judge | det |
| 14 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 King | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 King | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pleased | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wig | punct |
| 19 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 23 wig | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 because | fixed |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wig | nmod:poss |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wig | amod |
| 23 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 King | obl |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 crown | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 crown | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 crown | nmod:poss |
| 27 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wig | appos |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 top | case |
| 29 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 crown | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 looks | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 looks | nsubj |
| 32 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 crown | acl:relcl |
| 33 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 34 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 34 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 looks | xcomp |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 crown | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 jurors | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 jurors | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 creatures | det |
| 39 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 creatures | nummod |
| 40 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 jurors | nsubj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 box | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 box | det |
| 43 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 box | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 jury | punct |
| 45 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 creatures | nmod |
| 46 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 jurors | cop |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 jurors | det |
| 48 | jurors | juror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 King | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Alice | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | the names of things from books | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the judge | the King and the jurors | because Alice's great wig | tree rules | |||
| 4 | look | present | Alice's crown on top | uncomfortable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the twelve creatures in the jury box | the jurors | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | name | things from books | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | crown | Alice | top | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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:3.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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