Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 33
The King: «Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.»
Who acts: you · What happens: begin, go on, come, stop · To what, where: beginning, end
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 (you), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stop | dislocated |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Begin | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Begin | punct |
| 5 | Begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 stop | parataxis |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 beginning | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beginning | det |
| 8 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Begin | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Begin | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 go | compound:prt |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 stop | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 stop | advmod |
| 21 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 stop | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin in a quote | infinitive | at the beginning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go on in a quote | infinitive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | 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 | ||||
| 4 | stop in a quote | imperative | you not said here | then | the King dislocated | 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:33.
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.
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