Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 22
Old words in today's English: "a consultation" = a talk to decide something, "assembled" = gathered, "I proceed" = I'll carry on, "inclined" = willing.
Who acts: Old words, Dodo · What happens: decide, assemble, gather, proceed, carry on · To what, where: something · 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 (Old words, Dodo), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 English | case |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 English | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 today | case |
| 6 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 consultation | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 consultation | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 consultation | det |
| 10 | consultation | consultation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | appos |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 consultation | punct |
| 12 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 14 talk | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 talk | det |
| 14 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | appos |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 decide | mark |
| 16 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 talk | acl |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 decide | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 assembled | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 assembled | punct |
| 20 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 something | acl:relcl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 assembled | punct |
| 22 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 23 gathered | punct |
| 23 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 assembled | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 proceed | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 proceed | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 proceed | nsubj |
| 27 | proceed | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 assembled | conj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 proceed | punct |
| 29 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 carry | nsubj |
| 31 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 carry | aux |
| 32 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 carry | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 inclined | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 inclined | punct |
| 36 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 carry | parataxis |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 inclined | punct |
| 38 | = | = | PUNCT | _ | 39 willing | punct |
| 39 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 inclined | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 words | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | to-infinitive | Old words in today's English not said here | something | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 2 | assemble in a quote | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | gather | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | proceed in a quote | present | the Dodo = dodo | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | carry on | future | Old words in today's English | 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.
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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): R6-punct-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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