Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 19
The Hatter mumbles about «the twinkling of the tea»; the King says «Of course twinkling begins with a T!
Who acts: Hatter, King, twinkling · What happens: mumble, say, begin · 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 (Hatter, King, twinkling), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mumbles | nsubj |
| 3 | mumbles | mumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 twinkling | case |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 twinkling | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 twinkling | det |
| 7 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mumbles | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tea | det |
| 10 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 twinkling | nmod |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 twinkling | punct |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mumbles | parataxis |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 begins | punct |
| 17 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 20 begins | advmod |
| 18 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Of | fixed |
| 19 | twinkling | twinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 begins | nsubj |
| 20 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 says | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 T | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 T | det |
| 23 | T | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 begins | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 mumbles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mumble speech: other | present | the Hatter | about the twinkling of the tea | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about twinkling=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | begin in a quote | present | twinkling | with a T | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with t=Subeventuality |
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:19.
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 ×2, 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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