Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 19

"There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!", says Alice; only the cook and the cat do not sneeze.

Who acts: much pepper, Alice, cook · What happens: be, say, not sneeze · To what, where: soup · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» of the books 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 (much pepper, Alice, cook), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 says	ccomp
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	3 's	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pepper	amod
7	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 's	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 soup	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 soup	det
10	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 's	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cook	punct
17	only	only	ADV	_	19 cook	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cook	det
19	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sneeze	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cat	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cat	det
22	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cook	conj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 sneeze	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 sneeze	advmod
25	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 says	ccomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	much pepper	that soup; there	certainly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soup=Location
2	say speech: express	present	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not sneeze	present · do-support	the cook and the cat			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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:books:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:19.

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. 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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