Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 15
The March Hare offers wine, but there is only tea; Alice says it «wasn't very civil» (civil = polite) to offer it, and he says it wasn't civil of her to sit down without being invited.
Who acts: March Hare, tea, Alice, room, it · What happens: offer, be, say, not be, sit down, invite · To what, where: wine, 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 (March Hare, tea, Alice, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hare | det |
| 2 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hare | compound |
| 3 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 offers | nsubj |
| 4 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | parataxis |
| 5 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offers | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 is | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 offers | conj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 tea | advmod |
| 11 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 says | nsubj |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 says | obj |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 civil | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 civil | cop |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 civil | advmod |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 civil | advmod |
| 20 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 says | ccomp |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 civil | punct |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 polite | punct |
| 23 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 polite | amod |
| 24 | = | = | SYM | _ | 25 polite | case |
| 25 | polite | polite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 civil | parataxis |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 polite | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 offer | mark |
| 28 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 says | ccomp |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 offer | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 says | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 says | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 says | nsubj |
| 33 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 civil | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 civil | cop |
| 36 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 civil | advmod |
| 37 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 says | ccomp |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 civil | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 sit | mark |
| 41 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 civil | csubj |
| 42 | down | down | ADP | _ | 41 sit | compound:prt |
| 43 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 45 invited | mark |
| 44 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 invited | aux:pass |
| 45 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 sit | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 offers | 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 | offer | present | the March Hare | wine | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wine=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | tea | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Alice | Hare | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | past | civil property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | offer | to-infinitive | Hare | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | room | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not is | past | it | of Alice; civil property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | sit down | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | invite | gerund · passive | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING» |
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:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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