Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 22

When Alice says a treacle-well is no such thing, the Dormouse sulks: «If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself»; Alice says «I dare say there may be one» (I dare say = I suppose).

Who acts: Alice, Dormouse, you, one, I · What happens: say, be, sulk, not be, finish, dare · To what, where: such thing, story · 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, Dormouse, you, one), 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	When	when	ADV	_	3 says	advmod
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 treacle	det
5	treacle	treacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 well	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct
7	well	well	INTJ	_	11 thing	discourse
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 thing	det
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sulks	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Dormouse	det
14	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sulks	nsubj
15	sulks	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 «	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
18	If	if	SCONJ	_	23 civil	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 civil	nsubj
20	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 civil	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 civil	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 civil	cop
23	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 finish	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 civil	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 finish	nsubj
26	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 finish	aux
27	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 finish	advmod
28	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 story	det
30	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 finish	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 yourself	case
32	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 finish	obl
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 finish	punct
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 says	punct
35	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 says	nsubj
36	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 finish	parataxis
37	«	«	PUNCT	_	36 says	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 dare	nsubj
39	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 says	ccomp
40	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 dare	ccomp
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 be	expl
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 be	aux
43	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 say	ccomp
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 be	nsubj
45	»	»	PUNCT	_	40 say	punct
46	(	(	PUNCT	_	48 dare	punct
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 dare	nsubj
48	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 dare	conj
49	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 dare	ccomp
50	=	=	PUNCT	_	52 suppose	punct
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 suppose	nsubj
52	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 dare	advcl
53	)	)	PUNCT	_	52 suppose	punct
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present		no such thing			tree rules
3	sulk	present	the Dormouse				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you			civil property	tree rules
5	finish in a quote	would	you	the story		for yourself; well property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	present	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	dare in a quote	present	Alice				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Alice not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	be in a quote	may	one		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	dare	present	I				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	say speech: assert	present	I not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
12	suppose	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=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:22.

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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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