Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 5

They wake the Dormouse for a story: three sisters, Elsie, Lacie and Tillie, who live at the bottom of a well and eat nothing but treacle.

Who acts: cups, three sisters · What happens: wake, live, eat · To what, where: Dormouse, bottom, nothing

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 (cups, three 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wake	nsubj
2	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dormouse	det
4	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wake	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 story	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wake	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 sisters	punct
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sisters	nummod
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 story	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Elsie	punct
12	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sisters	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Lacie	punct
14	Lacie	Lacie	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Elsie	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Tillie	cc
16	Tillie	Tillie	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Lacie	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 live	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 live	nsubj
19	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sisters	acl:relcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 bottom	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bottom	det
22	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 live	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 well	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 well	det
25	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bottom	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eat	cc
27	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 live	conj
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 eat	obj
29	but	but	ADP	_	30 treacle	case
30	treacle	treacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nothing	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wake	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wake	present	cups = cup	the Dormouse		for a story	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dormouse=Patient
2	live	present	three sisters		the bottom of a well		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location
3	eat	present	three sisters not said here	nothing			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:5.

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 ×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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