Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 15

«It proves nothing of the sort!» she says: «you don't even know what they're about!» So the King orders the verses read, with famous advice: «Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.»

Who acts: court, Queen, you, King, verses · What happens: prove, say, not know, order, read, begin · To what, where: nothing, verses, beginning, end · 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, you, 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	_	3 proves	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proves	nsubj
3	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	ccomp
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 proves	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sort	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sort	det
7	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nothing	nmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 proves	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 proves	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 know	advmod
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 know	advmod
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	ccomp
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 know	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 about	nsubj
21	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 about	cop
22	about	about	ADP	_	19 what	acl:relcl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
25	So	so	ADV	_	28 orders	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 orders	nsubj
28	orders	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 verses	det
30	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 orders	obj
31	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 orders	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 advice	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 advice	case
34	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 advice	amod
35	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 read	obl
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 Begin	punct
37	«	«	PUNCT	_	38 Begin	punct
38	Begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 advice	parataxis
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 beginning	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 beginning	det
41	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 Begin	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 go	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 go	cc
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 Begin	conj
45	on	on	ADP	_	44 go	compound:prt
46	till	till	SCONJ	_	48 come	mark
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 come	nsubj
48	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 go	advcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 end	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 end	det
51	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 come	obl
52	:	:	PUNCT	_	54 stop	punct
53	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	54 stop	advmod
54	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	38 Begin	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
56	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	prove in a quote	present	court	nothing			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	say speech: express	present	Queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not know in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	order	present	the King	the verses			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent verse=Recipient clause=Topic
5	read not said to happen	infinitive	the verses not said here			with famous advice	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	begin in a quote	infinitive			at the beginning		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	go on in a quote	infinitive					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come in a quote	present	you		to the end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
9	stop in a quote	infinitive			then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:15.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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