Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 13
The court claps; the Queen says it proves he is guilty.
Who acts: court, Queen, Knave · What happens: clap, say, prove, be · 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 (court, Queen, Knave), 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 court | det |
| 2 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 claps | nsubj |
| 3 | claps | clap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 says | parataxis |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 claps | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 proves | nsubj |
| 9 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 guilty | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 guilty | cop |
| 12 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 proves | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 claps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | the court | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | prove | present | court | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | Knave | guilty property | 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:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:13.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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