Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 16

The verses begin «They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim.» (a good character = a good report about someone).

Who acts: verses, you, girl · What happens: begin, tell, have, mention, give, say · To what, where: verses, girl, Rabbit, good character · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» 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 (verses, you, girl), 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 verses	det
2	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 begin	nsubj
3	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
5	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begin	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	ccomp
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 had	aux
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mentioned	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	15 mentioned	cc
15	mentioned	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 mentioned	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mentioned	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 gave	punct
20	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begin	parataxis
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 gave	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 character	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 character	amod
25	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
27	But	but	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gave	conj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 swim	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 swim	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 swim	advmod
32	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begin	punct
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 begin	punct
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	38 character	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 character	det
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 character	amod
38	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begin	parataxis
39	=	=	PUNCT	_	42 report	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 report	det
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 report	amod
42	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 character	appos
43	about	about	ADP	_	44 someone	case
44	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	42 report	nmod
45	)	)	PUNCT	_	38 character	punct
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begin	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	begin	present	the verses			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	verses = verse		verses = verse	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	participle	you		girl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	mention speech: other in a quote	past		verses = verse	Rabbit	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to he=Recipient
5	give in a quote	past	girl	a good character	verses = verse	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient character=Theme
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	girl not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not swim in a quote	could	verses = verse			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:16.

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, 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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