Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense, sentence 0

«Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» is a book you can read twice: once for the story, and once for the word games hidden in nearly every page.

Who acts: Adventures, you · What happens: be, read, hide · To what, where: book, word games, page

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice's word games: puns, parodies and nonsense» of the language 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 (Adventures, you), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 book	punct
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Adventures	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Alice	case
4	Adventures	adventure	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 book	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Wonderland	case
6	Wonderland	wonderland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Adventures	nmod
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Adventures	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 book	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 book	det
10	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 read	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 read	aux
13	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 book	acl:relcl
14	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 read	advmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 book	punct
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 book	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 story	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 once	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 once	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 once	cc
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 book	advmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 games	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 games	det
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 games	compound
26	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 once	obl
27	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 games	acl
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 page	case
29	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	31 page	advmod
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 page	det
31	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hidden	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 book	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	a book		once property	tree rules
2	read	can	you	a book not said here		twice property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
3	hide	participle		the word games not said here	every page		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in page=Location

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:language:041-alice-s-word-games-puns-parodies-and-nonsense.lesson:0.

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): R8-pos-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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