Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 11
Kid gloves are gloves of soft leather from young goats ("kids"); with a fan, they were part of being smartly dressed, which is why the Rabbit is so upset to lose his.
Who acts: Kid gloves, gloves, Rabbit · What happens: be, dress, lose · To what, where: gloves, part, Rabbit
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps» of the history 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 (Kid gloves, gloves, Rabbit), 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 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gloves | compound |
| 2 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gloves | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gloves | cop |
| 4 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 leather | case |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 leather | amod |
| 7 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gloves | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 goats | case |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 goats | amod |
| 10 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gloves | nmod |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 kids | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 kids | punct |
| 13 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 goats | appos |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 kids | punct |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 kids | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fan | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 fan | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fan | det |
| 19 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 part | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 part | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 part | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 part | cop |
| 23 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gloves | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 dressed | mark |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 dressed | aux:pass |
| 26 | smartly | smartly | ADV | _ | 27 dressed | advmod |
| 27 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 part | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 why | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 why | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 why | cop |
| 31 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 dressed | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Rabbit | det |
| 33 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 upset | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 upset | cop |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 upset | advmod |
| 36 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 why | advcl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 lose | mark |
| 38 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 upset | xcomp |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 lose | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gloves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kid gloves | gloves | of soft leather; from young goats | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | gloves = glove | part | with a fan | tree rules | |||
| 3 | dress | gerund · passive | part not said here | smartly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the Rabbit | upset property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lose | to-infinitive | the Rabbit not said here | Rabbit | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent his=Eventuality |
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:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:11.
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.
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