Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 8
The Dodo presents the thimble with "We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble", and they all cheer.
Who acts: Dodo, We, words, your · What happens: present, beg, cheer, accept · To what, where: thimble, acceptance, elegant thimble
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 (Dodo, We, words, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dodo | det |
| 2 | Dodo | Dodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 presents | nsubj |
| 3 | presents | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thimble | det |
| 5 | thimble | thimble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 presents | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 beg | mark |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 beg | punct |
| 8 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 beg | nsubj |
| 9 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thimble | acl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 acceptance | nmod:poss |
| 11 | acceptance | acceptance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beg | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 thimble | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 thimble | det |
| 14 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thimble | amod |
| 15 | thimble | thimble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 acceptance | nmod |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 beg | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cheer | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cheer | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cheer | nsubj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 cheer | det |
| 21 | cheer | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 presents | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 presents | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | present | the Dodo | the thimble | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thimble=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | We | your acceptance of this elegant thimble | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent acceptance=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | cheer | present | words = word | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | accept in a quote | your | this elegant thimble | nom acceptance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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:8.
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 ×1, 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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