Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 17
The Queen asks for «the list of the singers in the last concert», and the Hatter trembles so that «he shook both his shoes off».
Who acts: Queen, Hatter · What happens: ask, tremble, shook off, list · To what, where: shoes, singers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise 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 (Queen, Hatter), 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 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 list | case |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 list | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 list | det |
| 7 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 singers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 singers | det |
| 10 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 list | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 concert | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 concert | det |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 concert | amod |
| 14 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 singers | nmod |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 list | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trembles | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 trembles | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Hatter | det |
| 19 | Hatter | Hatter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 trembles | nsubj |
| 20 | trembles | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asks | conj |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 25 shook | mark |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 shook | mark |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 shook | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shook | nsubj |
| 25 | shook | shook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 trembles | advcl |
| 26 | both | both | DET | _ | 28 shoes | det:predet |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shook | obj |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 shook | compound:prt |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 shook | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the Queen | for the list of the singers in the last concert | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tremble | present | the Hatter | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shook off in a quote | past | Hatter | Hatter's shoes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | list in a quote | the singers in the last concert | nom list «communication transitive»: of=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:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:17.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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