Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 9

The Mouse says "Ahem!" (a little cough to get attention) and calls its history lesson "the driest thing I know": "dry" means without water, and also means boring.

Who acts: Mouse, history lesson, dry · What happens: say, get, call, know, mean · To what, where: attention, driest thing · 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 (Mouse, history lesson, dry), 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 Mouse	det
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Ahem	punct
5	Ahem	ahem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Ahem	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Ahem	punct
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 cough	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cough	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cough	amod
11	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cough	acl
14	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 cough	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 calls	cc
17	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lesson	nmod:poss
19	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lesson	compound
20	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 calls	obj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 thing	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thing	det
23	driest	dry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 thing	amod
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lesson	appos
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
26	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 thing	acl:relcl
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 thing	punct
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 means	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 dry	punct
30	dry	dry	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 means	nsubj
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 dry	punct
32	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
33	without	without	ADP	_	34 water	case
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 means	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 means	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 means	cc
37	also	also	ADV	_	38 means	advmod
38	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 means	conj
39	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 means	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Mouse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	to-infinitive	the Mouse not said here	attention		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus
3	call speech: assert	present	Mouse's history lesson			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know in a quote	present	Mouse's history lesson = lesson	the driest thing not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	mean	present	dry		without water	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	mean	present	dry not said here		boring property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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:9.

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 ×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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