Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 10

The lesson is about William the Conqueror, the English accepting him, and Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria; earls were powerful lords.

Who acts: lesson, earls · What happens: be, accept · To what, where: Conqueror, lesson, English powerful lords

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» 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 (lesson, earls), 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 lesson	det
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Conqueror	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Conqueror	cop
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 William	case
5	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Conqueror	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Conqueror	det
7	Conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lords	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 English	det
10	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lords	amod
11	accepting	accept	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 English	acl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 accepting	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Edwin	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Edwin	cc
15	Edwin	Edwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 accepting	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Morcar	cc
17	Morcar	Morcar	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Edwin	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 earls	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 earls	det
20	earls	earl	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Edwin	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Mercia	case
22	Mercia	Mercia	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 earls	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Northumbria	cc
24	Northumbria	Northumbria	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Mercia	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 powerful	punct
26	earls	earl	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lords	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lords	cop
28	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lords	amod
29	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Conqueror	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Conqueror	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the lesson	the Conqueror and English powerful lords	about William	tree rules
2	accept	gerund		lesson		tree rules
3	is a	past	earls	English powerful lords		tree rules

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:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:10.

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, R7-rel-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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