Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 4
Alice asks what happens when they get back to the start, and the March Hare quickly changes the subject.
Who acts: Alice, cups, March Hare · What happens: ask, happen, get back, change · To what, where: subject · 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, cups, March Hare), 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 asks | nsubj |
| 2 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happens | nsubj |
| 4 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | ccomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 get | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happens | advcl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 start | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 start | det |
| 11 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 back | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 changes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 changes | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Hare | det |
| 15 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hare | compound |
| 16 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 changes | nsubj |
| 17 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 18 changes | advmod |
| 18 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 asks | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 subject | det |
| 20 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 changes | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asks | 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 | ask speech: ask | present | Alice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get back | present | cups = cup | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | change | present | the March Hare | the subject | quickly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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:4.
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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