Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 3

People say «she cried buckets»; Carroll makes the buckets real, and later, when Alice has shrunk, she has to swim in her own tears.

Who acts: People, Grahame, Carroll, Alice · What happens: say, cry, make, shrink, have, swim · To what, where: buckets, own tears · 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 (People, Grahame, Carroll, Alice), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
6	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cried	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 makes	punct
9	Carroll	Carroll	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 makes	nsubj
10	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 buckets	det
12	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 makes	obj
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 makes	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 later	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 later	cc
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 has	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shrunk	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 shrunk	advmod
19	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 shrunk	nsubj
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 shrunk	aux
21	shrunk	shrink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 has	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 has	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 has	nsubj
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 swim	mark
26	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 has	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 tears	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tears	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tears	amod
30	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 swim	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	People				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Grahame	buckets			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Topic
3	make	present	Carroll	the buckets		real property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Product
4	shrink	present · perfect	Alice				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	have	present	Carroll			late property	tree rules
6	swim	to-infinitive	Carroll not said here		Carroll's own tears		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tear=Trajectory

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:3.

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. 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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