Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 3

The Duck and the Lory keep interrupting, and when the Dodo suggests something in very long words, the Eaglet tells it to "Speak English!"

Who acts: Duck, Dodo, Eaglet · What happens: keep, interrupt, suggest, tell, speak · To what, where: something, long words, Dodo, English · 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 (Duck, Dodo, Eaglet), 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 Duck	det
2	Duck	Duck	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Lory	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lory	det
5	Lory	lory	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Duck	conj
6	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 keep	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 suggests	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 suggests	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 suggests	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Dodo	det
12	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 suggests	nsubj
13	suggests	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 interrupting	conj
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 suggests	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 words	case
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 words	amod
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 suggests	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 words	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Eaglet	det
21	Eaglet	eaglet	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 tells	nsubj
22	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 suggests	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tells	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 Speak	mark
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Speak	punct
26	Speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tells	xcomp
27	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Speak	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 interrupting	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 interrupting	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	keep	present	the Duck and the Lory				tree rules
2	interrupt	gerund	the Duck and the Lory not said here				tree rules
3	suggest speech: suggest	present	the Dodo	something		long words	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	present	the Eaglet		Dodo		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
5	speak speech: other not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Eaglet not said here	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.

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:3.

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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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