Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 16
I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!", and some birds titter (giggle).
Who acts: I, you, birds · What happens: not know, be, not believe, do, titter, mean · To what, where: meaning, long words · 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 (I, you, birds), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meaning | det |
| 6 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 words | case |
| 8 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 11 words | det:predet |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 words | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 words | amod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 meaning | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 believe | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 believe | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 more | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 more | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 more | cop |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 believe | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 believe | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 believe | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 believe | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 believe | advmod |
| 22 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 know | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 believe | ccomp |
| 25 | either | either | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 titter | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 titter | cc |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 birds | det |
| 31 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 titter | nsubj |
| 32 | titter | titter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | conj |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 giggle | punct |
| 34 | giggle | giggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 titter | appos |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 giggle | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | the meaning of half long words | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | more property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not believe | present · do-support | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | present | you | either property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | titter in a quote | present | some birds | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | mean | half long words | nom meaning «communication 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:16.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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