Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 14
The Dodo says "I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies", which means: let's stop this meeting and try something more lively straight away.
Who acts: Dodo, meeting, energetic remedies, 's · What happens: say, move, adjourn, mean, let, stop · To what, where: 's, meeting, something, energetic remedies · 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 (Dodo, meeting, energetic remedies, 's), 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 Dodo | det |
| 2 | Dodo | Dodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 move | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 move | nsubj |
| 6 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 adjourn | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meeting | det |
| 9 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 adjourn | nsubj |
| 10 | adjourn | adjourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 move | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 adoption | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 adoption | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 adoption | det |
| 14 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 adoption | amod |
| 15 | adoption | adoption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 adjourn | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 remedies | case |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 energetic | advmod |
| 18 | energetic | energetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 remedies | amod |
| 19 | remedies | remedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 adoption | nmod |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 remedies | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 means | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 means | nsubj |
| 23 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 remedies | acl:relcl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 means | ccomp |
| 26 | 's | us | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 let | obj |
| 27 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 let | xcomp |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 meeting | det |
| 29 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stop | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 try | cc |
| 31 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 stop | conj |
| 32 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 try | obj |
| 33 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 lively | advmod |
| 34 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 something | amod |
| 35 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 36 away | advmod |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 try | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Dodo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | move in a quote | present | the Dodo = dodo | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | adjourn in a quote | infinitive | the meeting | for the immediate adoption of energetic remedies | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | energetic remedies | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | 's | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | stop | infinitive | 's not said here | this meeting | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality meeting=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | try | infinitive | 's not said here | something | away property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | adopt in a quote | energetic remedies | nom adoption «act transitive»: of=patient |
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:14.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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