Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 3

It is always six o'clock, always tea-time, so they never wash up; they just move round the table to clean cups.

Who acts: head, they · What happens: be, not wash up, move, clean · To what, where: six o'clock, table, cups

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 (head, they), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 o'clock	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 o'clock	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 o'clock	advmod
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 o'clock	nummod
5	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 time	advmod
8	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 tea	punct
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 o'clock	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wash	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 wash	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wash	nsubj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 wash	advmod
15	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 o'clock	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 wash	compound:prt
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 move	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 move	nsubj
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 move	advmod
20	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 wash	conj
21	round	round	ADP	_	23 table	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 table	det
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 move	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 clean	mark
25	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 move	advcl
26	cups	cup	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 clean	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 o'clock	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	head	six o'clock		always property	tree rules
2	not wash up	present	they				vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	move	present	they		the table		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round table=Trajectory
4	clean	to-infinitive	they not said here	cups			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient

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:3.

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): no change. 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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