Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 7
The bigger the boast, the sillier he looks — and the more we laugh.
Who acts: boast, we · What happens: look, laugh
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 (boast, we), 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 bigger | det |
| 2 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boast | det |
| 4 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bigger | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sillier | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sillier | det |
| 7 | sillier | silly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 bigger | conj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looks | nsubj |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sillier | conj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 laugh | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laugh | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 more | det |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 laugh | advmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 laugh | nsubj |
| 15 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 looks | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bigger | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | boast | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | laugh | present | we | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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