Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 10

«Then it ought to be Number One,» says Alice — and the King turns pale and shuts his book.

Who acts: rule, Alice, King · What happens: be, say, turn, shut · To what, where: Number, book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)» 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 (rule, Alice, King), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ought	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 Number	nsubj
4	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 Number	aux
5	to	to	PART	_	7 Number	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 Number	cop
7	Number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	ccomp
8	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Number	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 turns	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turns	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 turns	nsubj
17	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	conj
18	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 turns	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shuts	cc
20	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 turns	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 book	nmod:poss
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shuts	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	ought	rule	Number		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	turn	present	the King		pale property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	shut	present	the King not said here	King's book		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent book=Patient

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:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:10.

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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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