Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 16

«It's always six o'clock now,» says the Hatter; Alice has a bright idea: «Is that the reason so many tea-things are put out here?», and the Hatter says yes; so it is always tea-time, and there is no time to wash the things «between whiles» (in between).

Who acts: head, Hatter, Alice, bright idea, time · What happens: be, say, have, wash · To what, where: six o'clock, bright idea, reason, tea time, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» 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 (head, Hatter, Alice, bright idea), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 o'clock	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 o'clock	cop
4	always	always	ADV	_	5 six	advmod
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 o'clock	nummod
6	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	parataxis
7	now	now	ADV	_	6 o'clock	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 o'clock	punct
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 o'clock	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Hatter	det
12	Hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
14	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 idea	det
17	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 idea	amod
18	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 idea	punct
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 idea	punct
21	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 put	cop
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 put	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 reason	det
24	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	nsubj:pass
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 many	advmod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 things	amod
27	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 things	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 tea	punct
29	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 put	nsubj:pass
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 put	aux:pass
31	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 idea	acl:relcl
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 put	compound:prt
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 put	advmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 says	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 says	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Hatter	det
39	Hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 says	nsubj
40	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 says	conj
41	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	40 says	ccomp
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 time	punct
43	so	so	ADV	_	49 time	advmod
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 time	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 time	cop
46	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	49 time	advmod
47	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 time	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 tea	punct
49	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	ccomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 is	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 is	cc
52	there	there	PRON	_	53 is	expl
53	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 time	conj
54	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	55 time	det
55	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 is	nsubj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 wash	mark
57	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 time	acl
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 things	det
59	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 wash	obj
60	«	«	PUNCT	_	62 whiles	punct
61	between	between	ADP	_	62 whiles	case
62	whiles	while	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 wash	obl
63	»	»	PUNCT	_	62 whiles	punct
64	(	(	PUNCT	_	65 in	punct
65	in	in	ADP	_	57 wash	obl
66	between	between	ADP	_	65 in	fixed
67	)	)	PUNCT	_	66 between	punct
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	head	six o'clock		now		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the Hatter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	Alice	a bright idea				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
4	is in a quote	present · passive	a bright idea not said here	the reason	here		put property	tree rules
5	say speech: ask	present	the Hatter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	head	tea time			always property	tree rules
7	be	present	no time		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	wash	to-infinitive	no time not said here	the things		while		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:16.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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