Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket watches, shillings and chimney sweeps, sentence 7

On 4 July 1862 he told the story on a rowing-boat trip on the river near Oxford to three sisters, Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell, and Alice asked him to write it down; the book, with pictures by John Tenniel, came out in 1865.

Who acts: Carroll, Alice, book · What happens: tell, ask, write down, come out · To what, where: story, three sisters, boat trip, Carroll, 1865 · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Carroll, Alice, book), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 July	case
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 July	nummod
3	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
4	1862	1862	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 July	nmod:unmarked
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	14 trip	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 trip	det
11	rowing	rowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boat	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 rowing	punct
13	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trip	compound
14	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trip	nmod
18	near	near	ADP	_	19 Oxford	case
19	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 river	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 sisters	case
21	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 sisters	nummod
22	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Lorina	punct
24	Lorina	Lorina	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 sisters	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Alice	punct
26	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Lorina	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Edith	cc
28	Edith	Edith	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Lorina	conj
29	Liddell	Liddell	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Edith	flat
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 asked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 asked	cc
32	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 asked	nsubj
33	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 asked	iobj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 write	mark
36	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 asked	xcomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 write	obj
38	down	down	ADP	_	36 write	compound:prt
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 book	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 book	det
41	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 came	nsubj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 pictures	punct
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 pictures	case
44	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 book	nmod
45	by	by	ADP	_	46 John	case
46	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 pictures	nmod
47	Tenniel	Tenniel	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 John	flat
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 came	punct
49	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 asked	conj
50	out	out	ADV	_	49 came	advmod
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 1865	case
52	1865	1865	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	49 came	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Carroll	the story	three sisters	a boat trip on the river near Oxford	july		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to sister=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	past	Alice		Carroll				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	write down not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	story					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	come out	past	the book with pictures by John			1865		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:7.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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