--- title: They find the Mock Turtle sitting sad and lonely on a ledge of rock,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: They find the Mock Turtle sitting sad and lonely on a ledge of rock, sighing as if his heart would break. Who acts: beheadings, Mock Turtle, heart. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beheadings, Mock Turtle, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.lesson:3 # text = They find the Mock Turtle sitting sad and lonely on a ledge of rock, sighing as if his heart would break. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl 7 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ledge ledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sighing sigh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | beheadings *= beheading* | the Mock Turtle | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent turtle=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | gerund | the Mock Turtle *not said here* | | | a ledge of rock | | sad *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ledge=Location | | 3 | **sigh** | gerund | the Mock Turtle *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **break** | would | lion's heart | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:books:018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/2/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/)