Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 27

How I wonder what you're at!» (it goes on «Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky») is a silly copy of the children's song «Twinkle, twinkle, little star», just as Alice's poems in chapters II and V came out wrong.

Who acts: I, beat, you, V, children · What happens: wonder, go on, « up, fly, be, come out · To what, where: silly copy, world · 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 (I, beat, you, V), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 wonder	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wonder	nsubj
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 copy	advcl
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wonder	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 at	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 at	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	4 what	acl:relcl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 goes	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 goes	nsubj
12	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 «	advcl
13	on	on	ADV	_	14 «	advmod
14	«	«	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wonder	ccomp
15	Up	up	ADP	_	14 «	compound:prt
16	above	above	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 «	obl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 fly	nsubj
20	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 world	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tray	punct
22	Like	like	ADP	_	26 tray	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tray	det
24	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tray	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 tea	punct
26	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 «	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 »	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sky	det
29	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tray	nmod
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 tray	punct
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 tray	punct
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 copy	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 copy	det
34	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 copy	amod
35	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
36	of	of	ADP	_	42 Twinkle	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 children	det
38	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 song	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 children	case
40	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 copy	nmod
41	«	«	PUNCT	_	42 Twinkle	punct
42	Twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 copy	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 twinkle	punct
44	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Twinkle	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 »	punct
46	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 star	amod
47	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 »	compound
48	»	»	PUNCT	_	42 Twinkle	punct
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 poems	punct
50	just	just	ADV	_	54 poems	advmod
51	as	as	ADP	_	54 poems	case
52	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 poems	nmod:poss
53	's	's	PART	_	52 Alice	case
54	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 Twinkle	appos
55	in	in	ADP	_	56 chapters	case
56	chapters	chapter	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 poems	nmod
57	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	56 chapters	flat
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 came	cc
59	V	V	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	60 came	nsubj
60	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 poems	conj
61	out	out	ADV	_	60 came	advmod
62	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 came	xcomp
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 copy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	I	a silly copy			tree rules
2	go on in a quote	present	beat				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	« up	participle			the world		tree rules
4	fly	present	you	the world not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location world=Theme
5	is a in a quote	present		a silly copy		of Twinkle and twinkle; the children's song nmod	tree rules
6	come out in a quote	past	V			out, wrong property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
7	sing in a quote		the children				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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:27.

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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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