Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 20

Alice says «Stupid things!»; the jurors all write it down, and one of them «didn't know how to spell "stupid"» and had to ask his neighbour.

Who acts: Alice, jurors, one, neighbour · What happens: say, write down, not know, spell, have, ask · To what, where: Stupid things, word, stupid · 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 (Alice, jurors, one, neighbour), 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 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 things	punct
4	Stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 write	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jurors	det
10	jurors	juror	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 write	nsubj
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 write	advmod
12	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 write	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 write	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 know	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 know	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 one	nmod
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 know	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 know	advmod
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 write	conj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 spell	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 spell	mark
26	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 know	ccomp
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 stupid	punct
28	stupid	stupid	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spell	obj
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 stupid	punct
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 had	cc
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 know	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 ask	mark
34	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 neighbour	nmod:poss
36	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ask	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alice	Stupid things		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	write down	present	the jurors	word	all property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	not know in a quote	past · do-support	one of jurors			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	spell in a quote	to-infinitive		stupid		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent stupid=Theme
5	have	past	one of jurors not said here			tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Alice's neighbour			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:20.

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, 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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