Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 8

Understatement can be kind, too: when the Mole tips the boat over, the Rat just laughs, «What's a little wet to a Water Rat?»

Who acts: Understatement, Mole, Rat · What happens: be, tip over, laugh · To what, where: boat · 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 (Understatement, Mole, Rat), 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	Understatement	understatement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 too	punct
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 kind	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 tips	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 tips	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Mole	det
10	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tips	nsubj
11	tips	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 laughs	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boat	det
13	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tips	obj
14	over	over	ADV	_	11 tips	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tips	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Rat	det
17	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 laughs	nsubj
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 laughs	advmod
19	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laughs	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 wet	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 wet	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 wet	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 little	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wet	obl
26	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 laughs	ccomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 Rat	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Rat	det
29	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Rat	compound
30	Rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wet	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 wet	punct
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 laughs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	can	Understatement		kind property	tree rules
2	tip over	present	the Mole	the boat	over property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	laugh	present	the Rat			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present			to a Water Rat; a little obl; wet 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:8.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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