Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 9
But the Hatter quarrelled with Time last March, at the Queen of Hearts' concert, while he was singing «Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
Who acts: Hatter · What happens: quarrel, sing · To what, where: concert, Twinkle
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 quarrelled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hatter | det |
| 3 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 quarrelled | nsubj |
| 4 | quarrelled | quarrel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Time | case |
| 6 | Time | Time | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 quarrelled | obl |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 March | amod |
| 8 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 quarrelled | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Queen | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Queen | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Queen | det |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 concert | nmod:poss |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Hearts | case |
| 14 | Hearts | Heart | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 Hearts | case |
| 16 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quarrelled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 singing | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 singing | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 singing | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 singing | aux |
| 21 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 quarrelled | advcl |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 Twinkle | punct |
| 23 | Twinkle | twinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 singing | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 twinkle | punct |
| 25 | twinkle | twinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Twinkle | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bat | punct |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bat | amod |
| 28 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Twinkle | appos |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 quarrelled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quarrel | past | the Hatter | Hearts's Queen's concert | with Time; march | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with time=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | Hatter | Twinkle and twinkle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twinkle=Theme |
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:9.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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