Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 1

Carroll often takes a big saying and makes it really happen; Grahame gives us Toad, the greatest boaster on the river bank.

Who acts: Carroll, saying, Grahame · What happens: take, make, happen, give · To what, where: big saying, saying, Toad, us

This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» 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 (Carroll, saying, Grahame), 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	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 takes	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 takes	advmod
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 saying	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 saying	amod
6	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 makes	cc
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 takes	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 makes	obj
10	really	really	ADV	_	11 happen	advmod
11	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 makes	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 gives	punct
13	Grahame	Grahame	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gives	nsubj
14	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 takes	parataxis
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 gives	iobj
16	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gives	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 boaster	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boaster	det
19	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 boaster	amod
20	boaster	boaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Toad	appos
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 bank	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bank	det
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bank	compound
24	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 boaster	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 takes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	present	Carroll	a big saying		often property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saying=Theme
2	make	present	Carroll not said here	saying			tree rules
3	happen	infinitive	saying not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	present	Grahame	Toad	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient toad=Theme

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:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:1.

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, R8-pos-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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