Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 23
Some jurors write «important» and some «unimportant»; Alice thinks «it doesn't matter a bit».
Who acts: jurors, Alice, it · What happens: write, think, not matter · To what, where: important », bit · 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 (jurors, Alice, it), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 jurors | det |
| 2 | jurors | juror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 write | nsubj |
| 3 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 important | punct |
| 5 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 » | amod |
| 6 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 write | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 some | cc |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 » | conj |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 unimportant | punct |
| 10 | unimportant | unimportant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 » | amod |
| 11 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 » | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 thinks | punct |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 thinks | nsubj |
| 14 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 write | parataxis |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 matter | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 matter | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 matter | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 matter | advmod |
| 19 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thinks | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bit | det |
| 21 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 matter | obl |
| 22 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 matter | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 write | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present | some jurors | important » and unimportant » | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent »=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | Alice | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not matter in a quote | present · do-support | it | a bit | 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:23.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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