Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 19

The Rat tells the Mole there is «nothing — absolute nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats»; it is a loving exaggeration, the way people talk about what they love most.

Who acts: Rat, Mole, way people, People · What happens: tell, be, do, mess, talk, love · To what, where: loving exaggeration · 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 (Rat, Mole, way people, People), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mole	det
5	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 is	expl
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	ccomp
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 is	nsubj
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	9 nothing	punct
11	absolute	absolute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nothing	amod
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 nothing	appos
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 half	punct
14	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 nothing	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 worth	advmod
17	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nothing	amod
18	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 worth	xcomp
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 messing	mark
20	simply	simply	ADV	_	21 messing	advmod
21	messing	mess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 nothing	acl
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 boats	case
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 boats	case
24	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 messing	obl
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 boats	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 exaggeration	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 exaggeration	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 exaggeration	det
30	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 exaggeration	amod
31	exaggeration	exaggeration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 talk	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 way	det
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 people	compound
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 talk	nsubj
36	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 exaggeration	conj
37	about	about	ADP	_	38 what	case
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 talk	obl
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 love	nsubj
40	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 what	acl:relcl
41	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	40 love	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Rat				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present	the Mole		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do in a quote	gerund	the Mole not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mess in a quote	gerund				about boats; simply property	tree rules
5	is a	present	Rat	a loving exaggeration			tree rules
6	talk	present	way people			about a loving exaggeration	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about what=Topic
7	love	present	People				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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:19.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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