Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 26

The sisters draw everything that begins with M: «mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness»; «much of a muchness» is an old saying for nearly the same.

Who acts: sisters, » · What happens: draw, begin, be · To what, where: everything, old saying

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 (sisters, »), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sisters	det
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 draw	nsubj
3	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 draw	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 begins	nsubj
6	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 everything	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 M	case
8	M	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begins	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 traps	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 traps	punct
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 traps	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 traps	punct
13	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 M	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 moon	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 moon	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moon	det
17	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 traps	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 memory	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 memory	cc
20	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 traps	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 muchness	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 muchness	cc
23	muchness	muchness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 traps	conj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 traps	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 saying	punct
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 much	punct
27	much	much	ADV	_	31 »	advmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 »	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 muchness	det
30	muchness	muchness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 much	nmod
31	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 saying	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 saying	cop
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 saying	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 saying	amod
35	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 draw	parataxis
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 same	case
37	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	39 same	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 same	det
39	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 saying	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 draw	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	present	the sisters	everything		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	begin	present			with M	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with m=Subeventuality
3	is a	present	»	a old saying	for the same	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:26.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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