Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 2

In the middle is a dish of tarts that look so good that Alice wishes they'd hurry up and hand round the refreshments.

Who acts: tarts, Alice · What happens: be, look, wish, hurry up, hand round · To what, where: dish, middle, refreshments · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness)» 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 (tarts, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dish	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dish	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dish	det
6	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 tarts	case
8	tarts	tart	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dish	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tarts	acl:relcl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 good	advmod
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 wishes	mark
14	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 wishes	nsubj
15	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 good	conj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hurry	nsubj
17	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hurry	aux
18	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wishes	ccomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 hurry	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hand	cc
21	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hurry	conj
22	round	round	ADP	_	21 hand	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 refreshments	det
24	refreshments	refreshment	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hand	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 middle	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a dish	the middle	of tarts	tree rules
2	look	present	tarts			good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	wish	present	Alice				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	hurry up	would	tarts = tart				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hand round	infinitive	tarts = tart not said here	the refreshments			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refreshment=Theme

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:021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.lesson:2.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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