Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 7

The King tells the Hatter he may «stand down»; the Hatter, kneeling, says he can't go any lower, so the King says he may «sit down».

Who acts: King, Hatter · What happens: tell, stand down, kneel, say, not go, sit down · To what, where: Hatter · 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, 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hatter	det
5	Hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stand	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stand	aux
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 stand	punct
9	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tells	ccomp
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 stand	compound:prt
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 stand	punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 Hatter	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Hatter	det
14	Hatter	hatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kneeling	punct
16	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 Hatter	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	parataxis
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
20	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 go	advmod
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 says	ccomp
23	any	any	ADV	_	24 lower	advmod
24	lower	low	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 go	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 says	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 says	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 King	det
28	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 says	nsubj
29	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sit	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sit	aux
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 sit	punct
33	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 says	ccomp
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 sit	compound:prt
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 sit	punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the King	the Hatter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent hatter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stand down in a quote	may	King			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	kneel	gerund	the Hatter not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	the Hatter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not go	can	King		low property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	present	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	sit down in a quote	may	King			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:7.

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, 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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