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Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 24

«Beat time» in music means tapping the beat; the Hatter pretends it means hitting Time, who «won't stand beating».

Who acts: Beat time, Hatter, beat, Time · What happens: mean, tap, pretend, hit, not stand, beat · To what, where: beat, Time · 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 (Beat time, Hatter, beat, Time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

punctcompoundnsubjpunctcasenmodxcompdetobjpunctdetnsubjparataxisnsubjccompccompobjpunctnsubjpunctauxadvmodacl:relclxcomppunctpunctroot«PUNCTBeatNOUNtimeNOUN»PUNCTinADPmusicNOUNmeansVERBtappingVERBtheDETbeatNOUN;PUNCTtheDETHatterPROPNpretendsVERBitPRONmeansVERBhittingVERBTimePROPN,PUNCTwhoPRON«PUNCTwoAUXn'tPARTstandVERBbeatingVERB»PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1««PUNCT_3 timepunct
2BeatBeatNOUNNumber=Sing3 timecompound
3timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing7 meansnsubj
4»»PUNCT_3 timepunct
5ininADP_6 musiccase
6musicmusicNOUNNumber=Sing3 timenmod
7meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
8tappingtapVERBVerbForm=Ger7 meansxcomp
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 beatdet
10beatbeatNOUNNumber=Sing8 tappingobj
11;;PUNCT_14 pretendspunct
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Hatterdet
13HatterHatterPROPNNumber=Sing14 pretendsnsubj
14pretendspretendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 meansparataxis
15ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 meansnsubj
16meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 pretendsccomp
17hittinghitVERBVerbForm=Ger16 meansccomp
18TimeTimePROPNNumber=Sing17 hittingobj
19,,PUNCT_21 «punct
20whowhoPRONPronType=Rel24 standnsubj
21««PUNCT_24 standpunct
22wowillAUXVerbForm=Fin24 standaux
23n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg24 standadvmod
24standstandVERBVerbForm=Inf18 Timeacl:relcl
25beatingbeatVERBVerbForm=Ger24 standxcomp
26»»PUNCT_24 standpunct
27..PUNCT_7 meanspunct

Pragmatics

form
statement
act
assert
voice
narrator
polarity
none
teacher
kept the draft
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1meanpresentBeat time in musicvn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2tap not said to happengerundBeat time in music not said herethe beatvn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent beat=Location
3pretendpresentthe Hattertree rules
4meanpresentbeatvn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5hitgerundTimevn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Co-Theme
6not stand in a quotefutureTimevn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7beat in a quotegerundTime not said herevn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:24.

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. 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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