Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 8
The Hatter wants a clean cup, everyone moves one place on, and Alice ends up at the March Hare's messy place, where the milk-jug has been knocked over.
Who acts: Hatter, everyone, Alice · What happens: want, move, end up, knock over · To what, where: clean cup, one place, messy place, milk jug
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 (Hatter, everyone, Alice), 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 Hatter | det |
| 2 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cup | det |
| 5 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cup | amod |
| 6 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 moves | punct |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 moves | nsubj |
| 9 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wants | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 place | nummod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moves | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 moves | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ends | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ends | cc |
| 15 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ends | nsubj |
| 16 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wants | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 ends | compound:prt |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Hare | det |
| 20 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Hare | compound |
| 21 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Hare | case |
| 23 | messy | messy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 place | amod |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ends | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 knocked | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 knocked | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 jug | det |
| 28 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 jug | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 milk | punct |
| 30 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 knocked | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 knocked | aux:pass |
| 33 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 place | acl:relcl |
| 34 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 knocked | compound:prt |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wants | 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 | want | present | the Hatter | a clean cup | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cup=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move | present | everyone | one place | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | end up | present | Alice | the March Hare's messy place | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | knock over | present · perfect · passive | the milk jug | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: 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:8.
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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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