Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 12
When the Mouse says the archbishop "found it advisable" (found it a sensible idea), the Duck asks "Found what?", because when a duck finds "it", "it's generally a frog or a worm".
Who acts: Mouse, archbishop, Duck · What happens: say, find, idea, ask, be · To what, where: attention, frog · 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 (Mouse, archbishop, Duck), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 says | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mouse | det |
| 3 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 asks | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 archbishop | det |
| 6 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | advisable | advisable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 found | xcomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 archbishop | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 idea | nsubj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 idea | det |
| 16 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 idea | amod |
| 17 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | xcomp |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 asks | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Duck | det |
| 21 | Duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asks | nsubj |
| 22 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Found | punct |
| 24 | Found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 asks | conj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 Found | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 Found | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Found | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 finds | punct |
| 29 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 finds | mark |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 finds | advmod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 duck | det |
| 32 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 finds | nsubj |
| 33 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 asks | advcl |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 it | punct |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 finds | obj |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 it | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 finds | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 frog | punct |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 frog | nsubj |
| 40 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 frog | cop |
| 41 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 43 frog | advmod |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 frog | det |
| 43 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 finds | obj |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 worm | cc |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 worm | det |
| 46 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 frog | conj |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 frog | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find in a quote | past | the archbishop | attention | advisable property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | find | participle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | idea | archbishop | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | the Duck | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | find in a quote | participle | the Duck not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 7 | find | present | a duck | attention | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | archbishop | a frog or a worm | generally property | 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:12.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5, 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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