Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 19
The course is "a sort of circle" ("the exact shape doesn't matter"), there is no "One, two, three, and away", and everyone runs and stops when they like.
Who acts: exact shape, One, everyone, Alice · What happens: not matter, be, run, stop, like, sort · To what, where: circle
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 (exact shape, One, everyone, Alice), 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 course | det |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sort | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 " | cop |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sort | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sort | det |
| 6 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 circle | case |
| 8 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sort | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 matter | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 matter | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 matter | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shape | det |
| 13 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shape | amod |
| 14 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 matter | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 matter | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 matter | advmod |
| 17 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sort | parataxis |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 matter | punct |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 matter | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sort | parataxis |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 One | det |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 One | punct |
| 25 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 is | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 two | punct |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 One | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 three | punct |
| 29 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 One | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 away | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 away | cc |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 One | conj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 away | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 runs | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 runs | cc |
| 36 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 37 runs | nsubj |
| 37 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 is | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 stops | cc |
| 39 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 runs | conj |
| 40 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 42 like | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 like | nsubj |
| 42 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 stops | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sort | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter in a quote | present · do-support | the exact shape | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | present | no One | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | present | everyone | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stop | present | everyone not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | like | present | Alice | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | sort in a quote | circle | nom sort «cognition 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:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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