Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 7

When Alice says there is no such thing as a treacle-well, the Dormouse sulks; she promises not to interrupt, and breaks the promise almost at once.

Who acts: Alice, such thing, Dormouse · What happens: say, be, sulk, promise, not interrupt, break · To what, where: promise · 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, such thing, Dormouse), 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	PronType=Int	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	17 sulks	advcl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 thing	det
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 treacle	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 treacle	det
11	treacle	treacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	nmod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 sulks	punct
13	well	well	INTJ	_	17 sulks	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 well	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Dormouse	det
16	Dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sulks	nsubj
17	sulks	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 promises	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 promises	nsubj
20	promises	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sulks	conj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 interrupt	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 interrupt	mark
23	interrupt	interrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 promises	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 breaks	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 breaks	cc
26	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 promises	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 promise	det
28	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 breaks	obj
29	almost	almost	ADV	_	31 once	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 promise	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 sulks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alice			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present	no such thing as a treacle		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sulk	present	the Dormouse			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	promise speech: promise	present	Alice			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not interrupt not said to happen	to-infinitive	Alice not said here			tree rules
6	break	present	Alice not said here	the promise		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=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:7.

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 ×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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