Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 25
«I dare say» means I suppose; «that accounts for it» means that explains it; «in a twinkling» means in a flash.
Who acts: Hatter, I, that, accounts · What happens: dare, say, mean, suppose, account, explain · To what, where: beat · 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, I, that, accounts), 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 | _ | 3 dare | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 dare | nsubj |
| 3 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | advcl |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dare | xcomp |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 suppose | nsubj |
| 8 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | ccomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 accounts | punct |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 accounts | nsubj |
| 12 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 means | nsubj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 accounts | obl |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 accounts | punct |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 explains | nsubj |
| 18 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 means | ccomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 explains | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 means | punct |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 twinkling | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 twinkling | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 twinkling | det |
| 24 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 means | obl |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 twinkling | punct |
| 26 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 flash | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 flash | det |
| 29 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 means | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare in a quote | present | Hatter | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Hatter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | account in a quote | that | for beat | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | mean | present | accounts | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | explain speech: assert | present | that | beat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 8 | mean | present | in a flash; in a twinkling | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in twinkling=Attribute |
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:25.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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