Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 19
In playing cards the Knave is the old name for the Jack, and in the book the four suits have jobs: spades are gardeners, clubs are soldiers, diamonds are courtiers and hearts are the royal children.
Who acts: Knave, four suits, spades, diamonds, courtiers · What happens: play, be, have · To what, where: cards, old name, jobs, book, gardeners, soldiers
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 (Knave, four suits, spades, diamonds), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 playing | mark |
| 2 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 name | advcl |
| 3 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 playing | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Knave | det |
| 5 | Knave | knave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 name | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 name | amod |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 children | parataxis |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Jack | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Jack | det |
| 12 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 book | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 book | det |
| 17 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 suits | det |
| 19 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 suits | nummod |
| 20 | suits | suit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 name | conj |
| 22 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 gardeners | punct |
| 24 | spades | spade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gardeners | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 gardeners | cop |
| 26 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 jobs | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 clubs | punct |
| 28 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 jobs | conj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 soldiers | cop |
| 30 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 courtiers | punct |
| 32 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 courtiers | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 courtiers | cop |
| 34 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 children | nsubj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hearts | cc |
| 36 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 courtiers | conj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 children | cop |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 children | det |
| 39 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 children | amod |
| 40 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | the Knave not said here | cards | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Knave | the old name | for the Jack | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | present | the four suits | jobs and gardeners and clubs | the book | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient | |||
| 4 | is a | present | spades | gardeners | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | soldiers | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | diamonds | courtiers and hearts | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | courtiers and hearts | the royal children | tree rules |
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: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): 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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