Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 12
The Mouse says "Mine is a long and a sad tale!" and Alice answers "It is a long tail, certainly", mixing up tale (story) and tail.
Who acts: Mouse, Alice, tale · What happens: say, be, answer, mix up · To what, where: long tail, tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» 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, Alice, tale), 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 | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 5 | Mine | mine | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 long | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 long | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 long | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tale | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tale | det |
| 11 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tale | amod |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 long | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 answers | cc |
| 16 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 answers | nsubj |
| 17 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 tail | punct |
| 19 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tail | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 tail | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tail | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tail | amod |
| 23 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 answers | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 " | punct |
| 25 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 26 " | advmod |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 tail | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 answers | punct |
| 28 | mixing | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 answers | advcl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 mixing | compound:prt |
| 30 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mixing | obj |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 story | punct |
| 32 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tale | appos |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 story | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 tail | cc |
| 35 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tale | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | the Mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the Mouse = mouse | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | present | Alice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | tale | a long tail | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mix up | gerund | Alice not said here | tale and tail | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Patient |
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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:12.
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 ×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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