Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 23

«Suppressed» means stopped or held down; here the officers put the cheering guinea-pig head first into a canvas bag and sit on it; later a second guinea-pig cheers and is suppressed too, and Alice thinks «Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!»

Who acts: officers, second guinea pig, Alice, that · What happens: suppress, mean, stop, hold down, put, cheer · To what, where: cheering pig head, canvas bag, bag, guinea pigs · 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 (officers, second guinea pig, Alice, that), 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	_	2 Suppressed	punct
2	Suppressed	suppress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 means	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Suppressed	punct
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 means	ccomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 held	cc
7	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stopped	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 held	compound:prt
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 put	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 officers	det
12	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 means	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 head	det
15	cheering	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 head	amod
16	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pig	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 guinea	punct
18	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 head	compound
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 put	advmod
21	into	into	ADP	_	24 bag	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bag	det
23	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bag	compound
24	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sit	cc
26	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 put	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sit	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 later	punct
30	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 cheers	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pig	det
32	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 pig	amod
33	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pig	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 guinea	punct
35	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cheers	nsubj
36	cheers	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 suppressed	cc
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 suppressed	aux:pass
39	suppressed	suppress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 cheers	conj
40	too	too	ADV	_	39 suppressed	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 thinks	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 thinks	cc
43	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 thinks	nsubj
44	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 means	parataxis
45	«	«	PUNCT	_	49 finished	punct
46	Come	come	INTJ	_	49 finished	discourse
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 finished	punct
48	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 finished	nsubj
49	finished	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 thinks	ccomp
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 pigs	det
51	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 pigs	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 guinea	punct
53	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 finished	obj
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	44 thinks	punct
55	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suppress in a quote	participle					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop	participle					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	hold down	participle					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	put	past	the officers	the cheering pig head	a canvas bag; here	first property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
6	cheer	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	sit	present	the officers not said here		bag		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location
8	cheer	present	a second guinea pig			late property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	suppress	present · passive	a second guinea pig not said here				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»
10	think speech: other	present	Alice				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
11	finish in a quote	past	that	the guinea pigs			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pig=Eventuality

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:23.

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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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