Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 15
The poem ends: "I have answered three questions, and that is enough," "Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"
Who acts: poem, old man, that · What happens: end, answer, be, kick down · To what, where: three questions, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice from a Caterpillar» 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 (poem, old man, that), 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 poem | det |
| 2 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | nsubj |
| 3 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | aux |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 ends | ccomp |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 questions | nummod |
| 10 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 enough | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 enough | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 enough | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 enough | cop |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ends | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 enough | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 enough | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 off | punct |
| 19 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 off | cop |
| 20 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 ends | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kick | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 kick | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 kick | nsubj |
| 24 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 kick | aux |
| 25 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ends | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 kick | obj |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 kick | compound:prt |
| 28 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kick | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 ends | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ends | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | the poem | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | the old man = man | three questions | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | off property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | kick down in a quote | future | the old man = man | you | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent you=Patient stair=Result |
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:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:15.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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