Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 4

The Dodo's idea is a Caucus-race: everyone runs round a rough circle, starting and stopping whenever they like, until after half an hour they are all dry.

Who acts: idea, everyone, Duck · What happens: be, run, start, stop, like · To what, where: Caucus race, rough 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 (idea, everyone, Duck), 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 Dodo	det
2	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 idea	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Dodo	case
4	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 race	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 race	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 race	det
7	Caucus	caucus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 race	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Caucus	punct
9	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 runs	punct
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 runs	nsubj
12	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 race	parataxis
13	round	round	ADP	_	16 circle	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 circle	det
15	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 circle	amod
16	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 runs	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 starting	punct
18	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 runs	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stopping	cc
20	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 starting	conj
21	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 stopping	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 like	nsubj
23	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 whenever	advcl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dry	punct
25	until	until	ADP	_	29 hour	case
26	after	after	ADP	_	29 hour	case
27	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	29 hour	det:predet
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hour	det
29	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dry	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dry	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 dry	cop
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 dry	advmod
33	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 starting	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 race	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Dodo's idea	a Caucus race				tree rules
2	run	present	everyone		a rough circle			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round circle=Trajectory
3	start	gerund	everyone not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	stop	gerund	everyone not said here				whenever property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	like	present	Duck					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is	present	Duck			hour	all, dry property	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:4.

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 ×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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