Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 14
No room!»; Alice answers «There's plenty of room!» and sits in a large arm-chair at one end.
Who acts: Alice, plenty, room · What happens: answer, be, sit · To what, where: large arm chair · 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 (Alice, plenty, room), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 room | det |
| 2 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sits | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 room | punct |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 room | punct |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 answers | punct |
| 6 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answers | nsubj |
| 7 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sits | conj |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 's | punct |
| 9 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 's | expl |
| 10 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answers | ccomp |
| 11 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 's | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plenty | nmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 's | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 's | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sits | cc |
| 17 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 chair | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 chair | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 chair | amod |
| 21 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chair | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 arm | punct |
| 23 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sits | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 end | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 end | nummod |
| 26 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sits | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 room | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | present | Alice | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | present | plenty of room | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | present | no room | a large arm chair | at one end | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location |
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:14.
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, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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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