Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 18

A caucus is a meeting of members of a political party; Carroll's Caucus-race is a joke about people running round in circles and getting nowhere.

Who acts: caucus, Caucus race, people, Carroll · What happens: be, run, get, race · To what, where: meeting, joke, circles

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 (caucus, Caucus race, people, Carroll), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 caucus	det
2	caucus	caucus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meeting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 meeting	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meeting	det
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 members	case
7	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meeting	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 party	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 party	det
10	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 party	amod
11	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 members	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 joke	punct
13	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 race	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Carroll	case
15	Caucus	caucus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 race	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Caucus	punct
17	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 joke	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 joke	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 joke	det
20	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meeting	parataxis
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 people	case
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 joke	nmod
23	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 people	acl
24	round	round	ADV	_	23 running	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 circles	case
26	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 running	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 getting	cc
28	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 running	conj
29	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 getting	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 meeting	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a caucus	a meeting		of members of a political party	tree rules
2	is a	present	Carroll's Caucus race	a joke		about people	tree rules
3	run	gerund	people not said here		circles	round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory
4	get	gerund	people not said here			nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	race		Carroll				nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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:18.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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