Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 20
I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.» (sixpence = an old coin; an atom = the tiniest bit).
Who acts: I, atom · What happens: not believe, be · To what, where: meaning · 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 (I, atom), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 's | expl |
| 6 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 atom | det |
| 8 | atom | atom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 's | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 meaning | case |
| 10 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 atom | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 's | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 sixpence | punct |
| 16 | sixpence | sixpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | parataxis |
| 17 | = | = | SYM | _ | 20 coin | punct |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 coin | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 coin | amod |
| 20 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sixpence | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 atom | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 atom | det |
| 23 | atom | atom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sixpence | conj |
| 24 | = | = | SYM | _ | 27 bit | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bit | det |
| 26 | tiniest | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 bit | amod |
| 27 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sixpence | conj |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 sixpence | punct |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | present · do-support | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | present | a atom of meaning | meaning; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
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:20.
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 ×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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