Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 11
The Lory says "Ugh!", then pretends it did not speak: "Not I!"
Who acts: Lory, dry · What happens: say, pretend, not speak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lory, dry), 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 Lory | det |
| 2 | Lory | lory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ugh | punct |
| 5 | Ugh | ugh | INTJ | _ | 3 says | parataxis |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ugh | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ugh | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretends | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 pretends | advmod |
| 10 | pretends | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 speak | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 speak | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 speak | advmod |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pretends | ccomp |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 I | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 I | punct |
| 17 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 I | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 says | parataxis |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 I | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Lory | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pretend | present | the Lory not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other | past · do-support | dry | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:11.
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): 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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