Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 16

An old Crab tells her daughter "never to lose your temper", and the daughter snaps "Hold your tongue, Ma!

Who acts: old Crab, daughter, your · What happens: tell, not lose, snap, hold, temper · To what, where: daughter, temper, tongue · 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 (old Crab, daughter, your), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Crab	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Crab	amod
3	Crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 lose	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 lose	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lose	mark
10	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tells	xcomp
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 temper	nmod:poss
12	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lose	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 lose	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 snaps	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 snaps	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 daughter	det
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 snaps	nsubj
18	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tells	conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Hold	punct
20	Hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 snaps	parataxis
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tongue	nmod:poss
22	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Hold	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Ma	punct
24	Ma	ma	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Hold	vocative
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a old Crab		Crab's daughter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not lose not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	a old Crab not said here	your temper			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
3	snap	present	the daughter				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hold in a quote	infinitive		your tongue		Ma vocative	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
5	temper in a quote		your				nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:16.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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