Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 8

Alice grumbles that they are wasting time, and the Hatter says Time is a person, «him», who will move the clock for you if you are friends.

Who acts: Alice, elbows, Hatter, Time, person, you · What happens: grumble, waste, say, be, move · To what, where: person, clock, friends · 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, elbows, Hatter, Time), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grumbles	nsubj
2	grumbles	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 wasting	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wasting	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wasting	aux
6	wasting	waste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 grumbles	ccomp
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wasting	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hatter	det
11	Hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grumbles	conj
13	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 person	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 person	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 person	det
16	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 person	punct
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 him	punct
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 person	appos
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 him	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 move	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 move	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 move	aux
24	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 person	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 clock	det
26	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 move	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 move	obl
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 friends	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 friends	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 friends	cop
32	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 move	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grumbles	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	present	Alice				vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	waste	present · progressive	elbows = elbow		time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	the Hatter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	Time	a person			tree rules
5	move	future	a person	the clock		for you	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clock=Theme
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	you	friends			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:8.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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