Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 16
«Your hair wants cutting» means your hair needs cutting; Alice tells the Hatter not to make personal remarks, rude comments about someone's looks.
Who acts: hair, Alice · What happens: want, cut, mean, need, tell, not make · To what, where: Hatter, personal remarks · 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 (hair, 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 wants | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hair | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wants | nsubj |
| 4 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 5 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 wants | xcomp |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 wants | punct |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 needs | nsubj |
| 10 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 11 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 needs | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 tells | punct |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tells | nsubj |
| 14 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Hatter | det |
| 16 | Hatter | hatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tells | obj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 make | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tells | xcomp |
| 20 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 remarks | amod |
| 21 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 comments | punct |
| 23 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 comments | amod |
| 24 | comments | comment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 remarks | conj |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 looks | case |
| 26 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 looks | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 someone | case |
| 28 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 comments | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | Your hair | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cut not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | Your hair not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | need | present | your hair | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | cut | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | present | Alice | the Hatter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent hatter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | not make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | personal remarks and rude comments about someone's looks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remark=Product |
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:16.
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 ×3, R7-rel-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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