Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 17

Her sums go wrong: "four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen" (in Alice's day the times tables at school stopped at twelve times), and her geography too: "London is the capital of Paris".

Who acts: sums, four times, times tables, London, Alice · What happens: go, be, stop, sum · To what, where: five twelve, capital · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» 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 (sums, four times, times tables, London), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sums	nmod:poss
2	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	xcomp
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 twelve	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 twelve	punct
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 twelve	nsubj
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 twelve	compound
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 twelve	cop
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 go	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thirteen	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thirteen	cc
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 times	nummod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thirteen	nsubj
16	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 times	compound
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thirteen	cop
18	thirteen	thirteen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	parataxis
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 thirteen	punct
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 stopped	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 day	case
22	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 day	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Alice	case
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stopped	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tables	det
26	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tables	compound
27	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stopped	nsubj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 school	case
29	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tables	nmod
30	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thirteen	parataxis
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 times	case
32	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 times	nummod
33	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stopped	obl
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 stopped	punct
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 geography	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 geography	cc
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 geography	nmod:poss
38	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	conj
39	too	too	ADV	_	38 geography	advmod
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 capital	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 capital	punct
42	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 capital	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 capital	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 capital	det
45	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 geography	parataxis
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 Paris	case
47	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 capital	nmod
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 capital	punct
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Alice's sums			wrong property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	four times	five twelve			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	four times			thirteen property	tree rules
4	stop	past	the times tables at school		day; time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	is a in a quote	present	London	the capital		of Paris	tree rules
6	sum		Alice				nom sum «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:17.

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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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