Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 1
The March Hare and the Hatter are squashed into one corner, leaning their elbows on a sleeping Dormouse as if it were a cushion.
Who acts: Dormouse · What happens: squash, lean, be · To what, where: March, one corner, elbows, sleeping Dormouse, cushion
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time)» 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 (Dormouse), 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 | 3 Hare | det |
| 2 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 squashed | nsubj |
| 3 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 March | flat |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Hatter | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hatter | det |
| 6 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hare | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 squashed | aux:pass |
| 8 | squashed | squash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 corner | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 corner | nummod |
| 11 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 squashed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaning | punct |
| 13 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 squashed | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 elbows | nmod:poss |
| 15 | elbows | elbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leaning | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 Dormouse | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Dormouse | det |
| 18 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Dormouse | amod |
| 19 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 leaning | obl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 cushion | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 cushion | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 cushion | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 cushion | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cushion | det |
| 25 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaning | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 squashed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | present · passive | March | one corner | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into corner=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lean | gerund | their elbows | a sleeping Dormouse | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent elbow=Theme on dormouse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Dormouse | a cushion | 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:books:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:1.
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, 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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