Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 22
«The Dormouse is asleep again,» says the Hatter, and he pours a little hot tea upon its nose.
Who acts: Dormouse, Hatter · What happens: be, say, pour · To what, where: little hot tea · 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 (Dormouse, Hatter), 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 | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dormouse | det |
| 3 | Dormouse | Dormouse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asleep | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 asleep | cop |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | ccomp |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 asleep | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hatter | det |
| 11 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pours | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pours | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pours | nsubj |
| 15 | pours | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tea | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tea | amod |
| 18 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tea | amod |
| 19 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pours | obj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 nose | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 nose | nmod:poss |
| 22 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pours | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the Dormouse | again | asleep property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Hatter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pour | present | Hatter | a little hot tea | upon Dormouse's nose | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient |
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:22.
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): R8-pos-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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