Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 18

Toad!» — he is not cleverer than the university teachers, and «knowed» is a deliberately wrong word for «known».

Who acts: Toad · What happens: not be, knowe, be, know · To what, where: wrong word

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 (Toad), 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	Toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cleverer	vocative
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Toad	punct
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Toad	punct
4	—	-	PUNCT	_	1 Toad	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cleverer	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cleverer	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cleverer	advmod
8	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 word	parataxis
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 teachers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 teachers	det
11	university	university	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 teachers	compound
12	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cleverer	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knowed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 word	cc
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 knowed	punct
16	knowed	knowe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 word	nsubj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 knowed	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 word	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 word	det
20	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	_	21 wrong	advmod
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 word	amod
22	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 known	case
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 known	punct
25	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 word	nmod
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 known	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 word	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	Toad		than the university teachers; Toad vocative; clever property	tree rules
2	knowe	past				tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present		a wrong word		tree rules
4	know	participle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:18.

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 ×1, 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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