Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 3
The King finds «meaning» anyway: «said I could not swim» fits the Knave, who is made of cardboard; «they all returned from him to you» — why, there are the tarts on the table!
Who acts: King, I, verses, tarts · What happens: find, say, not swim, fit, make, return · To what, where: meaning, Knave, you · 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 (King, I, verses, tarts), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 meaning | punct |
| 5 | meaning | mean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 meaning | punct |
| 7 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 3 finds | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fits | parataxis |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 swim | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 swim | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 swim | advmod |
| 14 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 16 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finds | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Knave | det |
| 18 | Knave | knave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fits | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 made | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux:pass |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Knave | acl:relcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cardboard | case |
| 24 | cardboard | cardboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 returned | punct |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 returned | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 returned | nsubj |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 they | dep |
| 29 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 swim | advcl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 returned | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 returned | obl |
| 34 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 returned | punct |
| 35 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 why | punct |
| 36 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 are | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 are | punct |
| 38 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 39 are | expl |
| 39 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 returned | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 tarts | det |
| 41 | tarts | tart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 are | nsubj |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 table | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 table | det |
| 44 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 tarts | nmod |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | the King | meaning | anyway property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mean=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not swim in a quote | could | I | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fit | present | the King not said here | the Knave | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | present · passive | the Knave | of cardboard | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 6 | return in a quote | past | verses = verse | you | from King | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from he=Initial_State to you=Result | |||
| 7 | does | present | the tarts on the table | there | vn exist-47.1 «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:3.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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