Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 7
When Alice asks the answer to the riddle, the Hatter says he has not the slightest idea.
Who acts: Alice, Hatter · What happens: ask, say, have · To what, where: answer, slightest idea · 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 (Alice, Hatter), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 asks | advmod |
| 2 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 says | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 riddle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 riddle | det |
| 8 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 riddle | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hatter | det |
| 11 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 says | ccomp |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 idea | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 idea | det |
| 17 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 idea | amod |
| 18 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Alice | the answer | to the riddle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent answer=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Hatter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | present | Hatter | the slightest idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
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:7.
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): R8-pos-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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