Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 13

In the tale a dog called Fury says to a mouse, "I'll be judge, I'll be jury", which means one side would decide everything, a very unfair trial; a "cur" is a bad-tempered dog and "prosecute" means take someone to court.

Who acts: dog, judge, one side, cur · What happens: call, say, be, mean, decide, temper · To what, where: dog, mouse, tale, judge, jury, everything · 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 (dog, judge, one side, cur), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 tale	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tale	det
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dog	acl
7	Fury	Fury	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mouse	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mouse	det
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mouse	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 judge	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 judge	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 judge	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 judge	cop
17	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 jury	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 jury	nsubj
20	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 jury	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 jury	cop
22	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 judge	parataxis
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 judge	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 means	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 means	nsubj
26	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 judge	advcl:relcl
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 side	nummod
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 decide	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 decide	aux
30	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 means	ccomp
31	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 decide	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 trial	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 trial	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 unfair	advmod
35	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 trial	amod
36	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 judge	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 dog	punct
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 cur	det
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 cur	punct
40	cur	cur	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 dog	nsubj
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 cur	punct
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 dog	cop
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 dog	det
44	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 tempered	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 bad	punct
46	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 dog	amod
47	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	parataxis
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 means	cc
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 prosecute	punct
50	prosecute	prosecute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	52 means	nsubj
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	50 prosecute	punct
52	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 dog	conj
53	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 means	ccomp
54	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	53 take	obj
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 court	case
56	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 take	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	call	participle		a dog not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	a dog		a mouse	the tale	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mouse=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	future	a dog = dog	judge and a unfair trial			tree rules
4	is a in a quote	future	a dog = dog	jury			tree rules
5	mean	present	judge and a unfair trial				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	decide	would	one side	everything			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
7	temper	participle					tree rules
8	is a	present	a cur	a tempered dog			tree rules
9	prosecute in a quote	present					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	take	infinitive		someone		court	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent someone=Theme to court=Destination

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:13.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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