Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 6
Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a mathematics teacher at Christ Church college in Oxford.
Who acts: Lewis Carroll · What happens: be · To what, where: pen name
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 (Lewis Carroll), 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 | Lewis | Lewis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Carroll | flat |
| 2 | Carroll | Carroll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 5 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | compound |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Charles | case |
| 8 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod |
| 9 | Dodgson | Dodgson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Charles | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 teacher | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 teacher | det |
| 12 | mathematics | mathematics | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 teacher | compound |
| 13 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Charles | appos |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 college | case |
| 15 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Church | compound |
| 16 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 college | compound |
| 17 | college | college | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 teacher | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Oxford | case |
| 19 | Oxford | Oxford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 college | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | 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 | past | Lewis Carroll | the pen name | of Charles | 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:6.
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): no change. 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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