Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 6
The March Hare dips it in his tea and gloomily repeats that it was the best butter.
Who acts: March, wine · What happens: dip, repeat, be · To what, where: wine, tea, best butter
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 (March, wine), 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 | 3 Hare | det |
| 2 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dips | nsubj |
| 3 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 March | flat |
| 4 | dips | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dips | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tea | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tea | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dips | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 repeats | cc |
| 10 | gloomily | gloomily | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 repeats | advmod |
| 11 | repeats | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dips | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 butter | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 butter | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 butter | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 butter | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 butter | amod |
| 17 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 repeats | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dips | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | present | March | wine | hair's tea | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in tea=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | repeat | present | March not said here | gloomily property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | wine | the best butter | tree rules |
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:6.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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