Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 22

«I'm a poor man, your Majesty.» — «You're a very poor speaker.» The King plays on poor = having little money, and poor = bad.

Who acts: King, You · What happens: be, play, have · To what, where: poor man, poor speaker, poor, little money · 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 (King, You), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Majesty	punct
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Majesty	nmod:poss
9	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	vocative
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 speaker	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 speaker	punct
14	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 speaker	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 speaker	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 speaker	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 poor	advmod
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 speaker	amod
19	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 speaker	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
22	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 plays	nsubj
24	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 man	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 poor	case
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 plays	obl
27	=	=	PUNCT	_	24 plays	punct
28	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 plays	acl
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 money	amod
30	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 having	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 poor	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 poor	cc
33	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 having	parataxis
34	=	=	PUNCT	_	35 bad	punct
35	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 poor	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the King = king	a poor man		your Majesty vocative	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	You	a poor speaker			tree rules
3	play	present	the King		poor		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	gerund		little money			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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:22.

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): R8-pos-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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