Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 23

The Hatter talks of Time as a person: «It's him.» If you kept on good terms with him, he says, Time would jump the clock from nine o'clock lessons to half-past one, dinner-time (dinner = the midday meal in old English homes); when Alice says she wouldn't be hungry yet, he answers «you could keep it to half-past one as long as you liked».

Who acts: Hatter, person, you, Time, Alice, clock · What happens: talk, be, keep on, say, jump, half · To what, where: hair, good terms, clock, nine o'clock lessons, past one · 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 (Hatter, person, you, Time), 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	2 Hatter	det
2	Hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talks	nsubj
3	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Time	case
5	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talks	obl
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 person	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Time	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 him	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 him	punct
11	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 him	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 him	cop
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talks	parataxis
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 him	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
16	If	if	SCONJ	_	18 kept	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 kept	nsubj
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 jump	advcl
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 kept	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 terms	amod
21	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kept	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kept	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 talks	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 says	nsubj
26	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 talks	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 jump	punct
28	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 jump	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 jump	aux
30	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 says	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 clock	det
32	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 jump	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	36 lessons	case
34	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 lessons	nummod
35	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lessons	compound
36	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 jump	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 half	mark
38	half	half	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 jump	advcl
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 half	punct
40	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 one	amod
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 half	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 time	punct
43	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 time	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 dinner	punct
45	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 jump	obl:unmarked
46	(	(	PUNCT	_	47 dinner	punct
47	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 time	conj
48	=	=	SYM	_	51 meal	punct
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 meal	det
50	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 meal	compound
51	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 time	parataxis
52	in	in	ADP	_	55 homes	case
53	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 homes	amod
54	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 homes	amod
55	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 meal	nmod
56	)	)	PUNCT	_	51 meal	punct
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 says	punct
58	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	60 says	advmod
59	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 says	nsubj
60	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 answers	advcl
61	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 hungry	nsubj
62	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 hungry	aux
63	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	65 hungry	advmod
64	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	65 hungry	cop
65	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 says	ccomp
66	yet	yet	ADV	_	65 hungry	advmod
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 answers	punct
68	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 answers	nsubj
69	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 talks	parataxis
70	«	«	PUNCT	_	73 keep	punct
71	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	73 keep	nsubj
72	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	73 keep	aux
73	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 answers	ccomp
74	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 keep	obj
75	to	to	PART	_	76 half	mark
76	half	half	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	73 keep	xcomp
77	-	-	PUNCT	_	79 one	punct
78	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 one	amod
79	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 half	obj
80	as	as	ADV	_	81 long	advmod
81	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	73 keep	advmod
82	as	as	SCONJ	_	84 liked	mark
83	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	84 liked	nsubj
84	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	81 long	advcl
85	»	»	PUNCT	_	84 liked	punct
86	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	the Hatter			time		tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	person	hair				tree rules
3	keep on a condition, not said to happen	past	you	good terms			with Hatter	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	Hatter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	jump	would	Time	the clock	nine o'clock lessons	time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent clock=Theme from lesson=Trajectory
6	half	to-infinitive	Time not said here	past one				tree rules
7	say speech: assert	present	Alice					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	not is	would	Alice			yet	hungry property	tree rules
9	answer speech: assert	present	Hatter					tree rules
10	keep in a quote	could	you	clock			long property	tree rules
11	half in a quote	to-infinitive	clock not said here	past one				tree rules
12	like in a quote	past	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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.

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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): R5-strong ×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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