Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 12
At the table sit the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse, who is fast asleep and used as a cushion.
Who acts: March Hare, Dormouse · What happens: sit, be, use · To what, where: table
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 (March Hare, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 table | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 table | det |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | obl |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hare | det |
| 6 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hare | compound |
| 7 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hatter | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hatter | det |
| 10 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hare | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Dormouse | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Dormouse | det |
| 13 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hatter | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asleep | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 asleep | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 asleep | cop |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 18 asleep | advmod |
| 18 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Dormouse | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 used | cc |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 asleep | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 cushion | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cushion | det |
| 23 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 used | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | infinitive | the March Hare and the Hatter and the Dormouse | the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Dormouse | asleep, fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | participle | the Dormouse not said here | as a cushion | vn eat-39.1 «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:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:12.
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 ×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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