Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 34
Talk in this lesson: «canny» (North East England) = quite, or nice; «howay» (North East) = come on; «sound» (Liverpool) = fine, decent; «no cap» = honestly; «ate» = did it brilliantly.
Who acts: you · What happens: talk, come on, sound, eat · To what, where: lesson · 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 (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 | Talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lesson | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Talk | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 » | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 » | punct |
| 7 | canny | canny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 » | amod |
| 8 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lesson | nmod |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 England | punct |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 East | amod |
| 11 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 England | compound |
| 12 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 » | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 England | punct |
| 14 | = | = | SYM | _ | 18 nice | punct |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 nice | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 nice | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 nice | cc |
| 18 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 » | appos |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 howay | punct |
| 21 | howay | howay | ADV | _ | 28 come | advmod |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 howay | punct |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 East | punct |
| 24 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 East | compound |
| 25 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 » | appos |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 East | punct |
| 27 | = | = | SYM | _ | 22 » | punct |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Talk | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 come | compound:prt |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 sound | punct |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 sound | punct |
| 32 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | parataxis |
| 33 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 32 sound | punct |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 Liverpool | punct |
| 35 | Liverpool | Liverpool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 » | parataxis |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 Liverpool | punct |
| 37 | = | = | SYM | _ | 38 fine | punct |
| 38 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sound | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 decent | punct |
| 40 | decent | decent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 fine | appos |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 cap | punct |
| 42 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 44 cap | punct |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 cap | det |
| 44 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fine | parataxis |
| 45 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 44 cap | punct |
| 46 | = | = | SYM | _ | 50 ate | punct |
| 47 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 50 ate | advmod |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 ate | punct |
| 49 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 50 ate | punct |
| 50 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Talk | advcl |
| 51 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 50 ate | punct |
| 52 | = | = | SYM | _ | 50 ate | punct |
| 53 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 ate | advcl |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 did | obj |
| 55 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 53 did | advmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Talk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | imperative | you not said here | this lesson canny » | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come on | infinitive | you not said here | howay property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sound in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | past | you not said here | honestly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:34.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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