Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 2

The Dormouse, squashed beside her, grumbles that she has no right to grow here; Alice answers that he is growing too, and he says huffily that he grows «at a reasonable pace», and moves away.

Who acts: Alice, room · What happens: squash, grumble, have, grow, answer, say · To what, where: Dormouse, right, reasonable pace, » · 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 (Alice, room), 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 Dormouse	det
2	Dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 squashed	punct
4	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Dormouse	acl
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 squashed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grumbles	punct
8	grumbles	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Dormouse	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 has	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grumbles	ccomp
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 right	det
13	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 grow	mark
15	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 right	acl
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 grow	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 answers	punct
18	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 answers	nsubj
19	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grumbles	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 growing	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 growing	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 growing	aux
23	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 answers	ccomp
24	too	too	ADV	_	23 growing	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 says	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 says	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 says	nsubj
28	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grumbles	conj
29	huffily	huffily	ADV	_	28 says	advmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 grows	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 grows	nsubj
32	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 says	ccomp
33	«	«	PUNCT	_	32 grows	punct
34	at	at	ADP	_	38 »	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 pace	det
36	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pace	amod
37	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grows	obl
38	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grows	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 moves	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 moves	cc
41	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 grows	conj
42	away	away	ADV	_	41 moves	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grumbles	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	squash	participle		the Dormouse not said here		beside Alice	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent beside she=Trajectory
2	grumble speech: other	present					vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	Alice	no right			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
4	grow	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	no right not said here	here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	answer speech: assert	present	Alice				tree rules
6	grow	present · progressive	room				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	present	room			huffily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	grow	present	room	a reasonable pace	»		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at »=Location
9	move away	present	room not said here			away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-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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