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Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 18

The Dormouse's three sisters are Elsie, Lacie and Tillie; they live at the bottom of a well, on treacle; Alice asks what they lived on because she «always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking»; treacle is thick sweet syrup, like golden syrup or molasses.

Who acts: three sisters, sisters, Alice, questions, treacle · What happens: be, live, ask, live on, take, eat · To what, where: Elsie, bottom, great interest, questions, thick sweet syrup · 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 (three sisters, sisters, Alice, questions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

detnmod:posscasenummodnsubjcopparataxispunctconjccconjpunctnsubjconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctcaseoblpunctnsubjobjnsubjacl:relcladvmodmarknsubjpunctadvmodadvcldetamodobjcasenmodmarkaclccconjobjpunctnsubjcopamodamodconjpunctcaseamodnmodccconjpunctrootTheDETDormousePROPN'sPARTthreeNUMsistersNOUNareAUXElsiePROPN,PUNCTLaciePROPNandCCONJTilliePROPN;PUNCTtheyPRONliveVERBatADPtheDETbottomNOUNofADPaDETwellNOUN,PUNCTonADPtreacleNOUN;PUNCTAlicePROPNasksVERBwhatPRONtheyPRONlivedVERBonADVbecauseSCONJshePRON«PUNCTalwaysADVtookVERBaDETgreatADJinterestNOUNinADPquestionsNOUNofSCONJeatingVERBandCCONJdrinkingNOUN»NOUN;PUNCTtreacleNOUNisAUXthickADJsweetADJsyrupNOUN,PUNCTlikeADPgoldenADJsyrupNOUNorCCONJmolassesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Dormousedet
2DormouseDormousePROPNNumber=Sing5 sistersnmod:poss
3's'sPART_2 Dormousecase
4threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card5 sistersnummod
5sisterssisterNOUNNumber=Plur7 Elsiensubj
6arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 Elsiecop
7ElsieElsiePROPNNumber=Sing26 asksparataxis
8,,PUNCT_9 Laciepunct
9LacieLaciePROPNNumber=Sing7 Elsieconj
10andandCCONJ_11 Tilliecc
11TillieTilliePROPNNumber=Sing7 Elsieconj
12;;PUNCT_14 livepunct
13theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 livensubj
14liveliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 asksconj
15atatADP_17 bottomcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 bottomdet
17bottombottomNOUNNumber=Sing14 liveobl
18ofofADP_23 treaclecase
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 welldet
20wellwellNOUNNumber=Sing17 bottomnmod
21,,PUNCT_20 wellpunct
22ononADP_23 treaclecase
23treacletreacleNOUNNumber=Sing14 liveobl
24;;PUNCT_26 askspunct
25AliceAlicePROPNNumber=Sing26 asksnsubj
26asksaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
27whatwhatPRONPronType=Int26 asksobj
28theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 livednsubj
29livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 whatacl:relcl
30ononADV_29 livedadvmod
31becausebecauseSCONJ_35 tookmark
32sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 tooknsubj
33««PUNCT_35 tookpunct
34alwaysalwaysADVPronType=Tot35 tookadvmod
35tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 livedadvcl
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 interestdet
37greatgreatADJDegree=Pos38 interestamod
38interestinterestNOUNNumber=Sing35 tookobj
39ininADP_40 questionscase
40questionsquestionNOUNNumber=Plur38 interestnmod
41ofofSCONJ_42 eatingmark
42eatingeatVERBVerbForm=Ger40 questionsacl
43andandCCONJ_44 drinkingcc
44drinkingdrinkingNOUNNumber=Sing42 eatingconj
45»»NOUNNumber=Plur44 drinkingobj
46;;PUNCT_51 syruppunct
47treacletreacleNOUNNumber=Sing51 syrupnsubj
48isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin51 syrupcop
49thickthickADJDegree=Pos51 syrupamod
50sweetsweetADJDegree=Pos51 syrupamod
51syrupsyrupNOUNNumber=Sing26 asksconj
52,,PUNCT_55 syruppunct
53likelikeADP_55 syrupcase
54goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos55 syrupamod
55syrupsyrupNOUNNumber=Sing51 syrupnmod
56ororCCONJ_57 molassescc
57molassesmolassesNOUNNumber=Plur55 syrupconj
58..PUNCT_7 Elsiepunct

Pragmatics

form
statement
act
narrate
voice
narrator
polarity
none
teacher
kept the draft
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentthe Dormouse's three sistersElsie and Lacie and Tillietree rules
2livepresentsisters = sisterthe bottom a wellof treaclevn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location
3ask speech: askpresentAlicevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
4live onpastsisters = sistervn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5take in a quotepastAlicea great interestquestionsalways propertyvn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in question=Location
6eat in a quotegerundquestions not said herevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7is apresenttreaclethick sweet syruplike golden syrup or molassestree 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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:18.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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