Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 2
No room!» they shout, though the table is huge, so Alice sits down in a big arm-chair anyway, cross.
Who acts: elbows, table, Alice · What happens: shout, be, sit down · To what, where: big arm chair
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 (elbows, table, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 room | det |
| 2 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 room | punct |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 shout | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shout | nsubj |
| 6 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 room | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 huge | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 huge | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 table | det |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 huge | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 huge | cop |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shout | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sits | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 sits | advmod |
| 15 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sits | nsubj |
| 16 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shout | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 sits | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 chair | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 chair | det |
| 20 | big | big | 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 | 16 sits | obl |
| 24 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 16 sits | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cross | punct |
| 26 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 room | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 room | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express in a quote | present | elbows = elbow | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the table | huge property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit down in a quote | present | Alice | a big arm chair | anyway, down property | 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:2.
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, 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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