Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 21
Alice snaps «Nobody asked your opinion», and the Hatter asks «Who's making personal remarks now?» — she has done the very thing she scolded him for.
Who acts: Alice, Nobody, Hatter, your · What happens: snap, ask, make, do, scold, opine · To what, where: opinion, personal remarks, very thing, Hatter · 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, Nobody, Hatter, your), 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 snaps | nsubj |
| 2 | snaps | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
| 4 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 snaps | ccomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asks | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asks | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hatter | det |
| 12 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asks | nsubj |
| 13 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 snaps | conj |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 15 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 making | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 making | aux |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 asks | ccomp |
| 18 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 remarks | amod |
| 19 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 making | obj |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 making | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 done | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 done | nsubj |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 snaps | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 thing | det |
| 28 | very | very | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 thing | amod |
| 29 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 done | obj |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 scolded | nsubj |
| 31 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 thing | acl:relcl |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 scolded | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 scolded | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 snaps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | present | Alice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | Nobody | your opinion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent opinion=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | the Hatter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · progressive | personal remarks | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Product | ||||
| 5 | do | present · perfect | Alice | the very thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | scold | past | Alice | Hatter | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | opine in a quote | your | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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:21.
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): 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.
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