Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 19
The old Magpie says "the night-air doesn't suit my throat", and a Canary calls its children to bed.
Who acts: old Magpie, night air, Canary · What happens: say, not suit, call · To what, where: throat, children, bed · 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 Magpie, night air, Canary), 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 | 3 Magpie | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Magpie | amod |
| 3 | Magpie | magpie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 suit | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 air | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suit | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 suit | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 suit | advmod |
| 12 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 throat | nmod:poss |
| 14 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suit | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 suit | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 calls | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 calls | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Canary | det |
| 19 | Canary | canary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 calls | nsubj |
| 20 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 children | nmod:poss |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 calls | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 calls | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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: assert | present | the old Magpie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not suit in a quote | present · do-support | the night air | my throat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | present | a Canary | Canary's children | bed | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Topic to bed=Recipient |
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:19.
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): R8-pos-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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