Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 18
The six verses are full of «he», «she», «they», «you» and «it», so nobody can tell who anyone is; that is Carroll's joke about evidence that sounds important and means nothing.
Who acts: six verses, nobody, anyone, that, evidence · What happens: be, tell, sound, mean · To what, where: joke, nothing · 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 (six verses, nobody, anyone, that), 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 | 3 verses | det |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 verses | nummod |
| 3 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 full | cop |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 he | case |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 full | obl |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 » | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 she | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 he | conj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 she | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 they | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 they | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 he | conj |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 they | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 you | punct |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 you | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 he | conj |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 you | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 it | cc |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 it | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 he | conj |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 it | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tell | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 tell | advmod |
| 28 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 tell | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 tell | aux |
| 30 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 full | conj |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 tell | ccomp |
| 32 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 who | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 who | cop |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 joke | punct |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 joke | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 joke | cop |
| 37 | Carroll | Carroll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 joke | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 Carroll | case |
| 39 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | parataxis |
| 40 | about | about | ADP | _ | 41 evidence | case |
| 41 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 joke | nmod |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 sounds | nsubj |
| 43 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 evidence | acl:relcl |
| 44 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 sounds | xcomp |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 means | cc |
| 46 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 sounds | conj |
| 47 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 46 means | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the six verses | of Rabbit; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | can | nobody | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | anyone | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | Carroll's joke | about evidence | tree rules | |||
| 5 | sound | present | evidence | important property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | evidence not said here | nothing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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:18.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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