Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 10

Alice goes on «I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!» and Carroll adds «(Which was very likely true.)» — a dark joke: after such a fall she wouldn't be able to say anything.

Who acts: Alice, Carroll · What happens: go on, not say, fell off, add, be, not be · To what, where: anything, top · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Alice, 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 goes	compound:prt
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 say	advmod
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 goes	ccomp
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 say	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 anything	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	16 fell	advmod
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 fell	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	advcl
17	off	off	ADP	_	19 top	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 top	det
19	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 top	nmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 adds	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 adds	cc
26	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 adds	nsubj
27	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	conj
28	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 adds	punct
29	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 true	punct
30	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 true	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 likely	cop
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 likely	advmod
33	likely	likely	ADV	_	34 true	advmod
34	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 adds	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct
37	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct
38	—	-	PUNCT	_	41 joke	punct
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 joke	det
40	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 joke	amod
41	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	appos
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	51 able	punct
43	after	after	ADP	_	46 fall	case
44	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	46 fall	det:predet
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 fall	det
46	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 able	obl
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 able	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 able	aux
49	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 able	advmod
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 able	cop
51	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 joke	parataxis
52	to	to	PART	_	53 say	mark
53	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 able	xcomp
54	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	53 say	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present	Alice				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not say speech: assert in a quote	would	Alice	anything		about fall	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
3	fell off a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	Alice	the top of the house			tree rules
4	add speech: assert	present	Carroll				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	past				likely property	tree rules
6	not is	would	Alice		after such fall	able property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	anything			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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:10.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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