Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 5
Her threats are hyperbole, like a cross big sister's.
Who acts: threats · What happens: be
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 (threats), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 threats | nmod:poss |
| 2 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hyperbole | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hyperbole | cop |
| 4 | hyperbole | hyperbole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sister | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 sister | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sister | det |
| 8 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sister | compound |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sister | amod |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hyperbole | obl |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 sister | case |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hyperbole | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Alice's threats | like a cross big sister; hyperbole property | tree rules |
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:5.
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): 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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