Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 23

«You can't swim, can you?» the King asks the Knave; «Do I look like it?» — he is made entirely of cardboard.

Who acts: You, King · What happens: not swim, ask, look, make · To what, where: Knave, King · 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 (You, King), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 swim	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 swim	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 swim	advmod
5	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 made	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swim	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 can	nsubj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 swim	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 asks	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 asks	nsubj
13	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 made	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Knave	det
15	Knave	knave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asks	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
18	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 look	aux
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 look	nsubj
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asks	ccomp
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 look	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 asks	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux:pass
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
29	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	31 cardboard	advmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 cardboard	case
31	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 made	punct

Pragmatics

form: yes/no question
act: ask
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed form=q, act=ask

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not swim in a quote	can	You			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	present	the King	the Knave		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent knave=Recipient clause=Topic
3	look in a quote	present · do-support	the King = king		like Knave	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	make	present · passive		King	of cardboard	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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:23.

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): 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.

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