Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 24

The King says «they all returned from him to you» means the tarts on the table, and «Nothing can be clearer than that».

Who acts: King, verses, Nothing · What happens: say, return, mean, be · To what, where: you, tarts, table · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» 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, verses, Nothing), 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 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 returned	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 returned	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 they	det
7	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 returned	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 returned	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 returned	punct
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tarts	det
15	tarts	tart	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 means	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 table	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tarts	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 clearer	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 clearer	cc
21	«	«	SCONJ	_	25 clearer	mark
22	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 clearer	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 clearer	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 clearer	cop
25	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 says	ccomp
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 »	case
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 clearer	obl
28	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 clearer	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	return in a quote	past	verses = verse		you		from King	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from he=Initial_State to you=Result
3	mean	present		the tarts		the table		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=Topic
4	is in a quote	can	Nothing				than »; that obl; clear property	tree rules

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:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:24.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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