Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 7

Alice soon talks with the animals "as if she had known them all her life", and argues with the Lory, who only says "I am older than you, and must know better", but refuses to tell its age, so the argument can go no further.

Who acts: Alice, party, Lory, age, argument · What happens: talk, know, argue, say, be, refuse · To what, where: Alice · 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 (Alice, party, Lory, age), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 talks	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 talks	advmod
3	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 animals	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animals	det
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talks	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 known	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 known	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 known	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 known	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 known	aux
12	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 talks	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 known	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 life	det
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 known	obl:unmarked
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 known	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 argues	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 argues	cc
20	argues	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 talks	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 Lory	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Lory	det
23	Lory	lory	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 argues	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 says	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 says	nsubj
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 says	advmod
27	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Lory	acl:relcl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 older	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 older	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 older	cop
31	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 says	ccomp
32	than	than	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 older	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 know	cc
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 know	aux
37	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 argues	conj
38	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 know	ccomp
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 better	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 refuses	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 refuses	cc
42	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 talks	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 tell	mark
44	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 refuses	xcomp
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 age	nmod:poss
46	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 tell	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 go	punct
48	so	so	ADV	_	52 go	advmod
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 argument	det
50	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 go	nsubj
51	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 go	aux
52	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 tell	ccomp
53	no	no	ADV	_	54 further	advmod
54	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	52 go	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	present	Alice		with the animals; soon property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with animal=Co-Agent
2	know in a quote	past · perfect	party	Alice	party's life obl:unmarked	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	argue speech: disagree	present	Alice not said here		with the Lory	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with lory=Co-Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	the Lory			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	Alice		than you; old property	tree rules
6	know in a quote	must	Alice not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	refuse	present	Alice not said here			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	not tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	life's age			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	go	can	the argument		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:7.

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, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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