Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 20

«Take some more tea,» says the March Hare; Alice has had none, so she «can't take more»; the Hatter says she means she can't take less, because «it's very easy to take more than nothing».

Who acts: you, March Hare, Alice, Hatter · What happens: take, say, have, not take, mean, be · To what, where: more tea, none, more, less · 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 (you, March Hare, Alice, 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 tea	det
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 tea	amod
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hare	det
10	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Hare	flat
11	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 had	aux
15	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 says	parataxis
16	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	15 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	23 take	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 take	nsubj
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
21	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 take	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 take	advmod
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	conj
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 take	obj
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 says	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Hatter	det
28	Hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 says	nsubj
29	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 means	nsubj
31	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 says	ccomp
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 take	nsubj
33	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 take	aux
34	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 take	advmod
35	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 means	ccomp
36	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 take	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 easy	punct
38	because	because	SCONJ	_	43 easy	mark
39	«	«	PUNCT	_	43 easy	punct
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 easy	expl
41	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 easy	cop
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 easy	advmod
43	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 take	advcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 take	mark
45	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 easy	csubj
46	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	45 take	obj
47	than	than	ADP	_	48 nothing	case
48	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	46 more	obl
49	»	»	PUNCT	_	43 easy	punct
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	imperative	you not said here	some more tea		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent tea=Theme clause=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	present	the March Hare			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have	present · perfect	Alice	none		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
4	not take in a quote	can	Alice	more		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present	the Hatter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	mean	present	Alice			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not take	can	Alice	less		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme
8	is in a quote	present	Alice not said here		easy property	tree rules
9	take in a quote	to-infinitive		more		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:20.

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, R7-rel-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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