Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 19

Alice says they would have been ill; the Dormouse answers «So they were, very ill».

Who acts: Alice, sisters, Dormouse · What happens: say, be, answer · 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 (Alice, sisters, Dormouse), 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 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ill	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 ill	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 ill	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 ill	cop
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 answers	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Dormouse	det
10	Dormouse	dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 answers	nsubj
11	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 ill	punct
13	So	so	ADV	_	18 ill	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ill	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ill	cop
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 were	punct
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 ill	advmod
18	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answers	parataxis
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 ill	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would · perfect	sisters = sister	ill property	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	present	the Dormouse		tree rules
4	is in a quote	past	sisters = sister	ill property	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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:19.

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): 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/19/