Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 19

For the Dormouse, «I breathe when I sleep» and «I sleep when I breathe» really are the same, because he is nearly always asleep.

Who acts: Alice, hair · What happens: breathe, sleep, be

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, hair), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 Dormouse	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dormouse	det
3	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 same	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 breathe	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 breathe	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 breathe	nsubj
7	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 same	nsubj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 sleep	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sleep	nsubj
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 breathe	advcl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 breathe	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sleep	cc
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 sleep	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sleep	nsubj
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 breathe	conj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 breathe	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 breathe	nsubj
18	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sleep	advcl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 sleep	punct
20	really	really	ADV	_	23 same	advmod
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 same	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 same	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 asleep	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 asleep	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 asleep	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 asleep	cop
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	30 asleep	advmod
29	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	30 asleep	advmod
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 same	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 same	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	breathe in a quote	present	Alice		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sleep in a quote	present	Alice		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sleep in a quote	present	Alice		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	breathe in a quote	present	Alice		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present		for the Dormouse; same property	tree rules
6	is	present	hair	always, asleep, nearly property	tree rules

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:19.

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, 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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