Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 11

The Cheshire Cat told Alice in chapter VI that a Hatter and a March Hare live nearby and that «they're both mad»; she chose the March Hare.

Who acts: Cheshire Cat, Hatter, words, Alice · What happens: tell, live, be, choose · To what, where: Alice, chapter, March Hare · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cheshire Cat, Hatter, words, Alice), 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 Cat	det
2	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Cat	compound
3	Cat	Cat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 chapter	case
7	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
8	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	7 chapter	flat
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 live	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Hatter	det
11	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 live	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Hare	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Hare	det
14	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Hare	compound
15	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Hatter	conj
16	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
17	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	16 live	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 mad	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 mad	mark
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 mad	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 mad	nsubj
22	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 mad	cop
23	both	both	ADV	_	24 mad	advmod
24	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 live	conj
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 mad	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 chose	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 chose	nsubj
28	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Hare	det
30	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Hare	compound
31	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 chose	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Cheshire Cat		Alice	chapter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient clause=Topic
2	live	present	a Hatter and a March Hare				nearby property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	words = word				both, mad property	tree rules
4	choose	past	Alice	the March Hare				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme

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:11.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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