Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 4

When the Queen says she never had fits, he jokes «Then the words don't fit you», and nobody laughs until he explains it was a pun.

Who acts: Queen, King, words, nobody, Knave · What happens: say, not have, joke, not fit, laugh, explain · To what, where: fits, you, pun · 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 (Queen, King, words, nobody), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 says	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 jokes	advcl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 had	advmod
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	fits	fit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jokes	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 jokes	nsubj
11	jokes	joke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 fit	punct
13	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 fit	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 words	det
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fit	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fit	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 fit	advmod
18	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 jokes	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 fit	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 fit	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laughs	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 laughs	cc
23	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 laughs	nsubj
24	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 jokes	conj
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 explains	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 explains	nsubj
27	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 laughs	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pun	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 pun	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pun	det
31	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 explains	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 jokes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Queen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not have	past	Queen	fits		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient
3	joke speech: other	present	King			tree rules
4	not fit in a quote	present · do-support	the words	you	then	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	laugh	present	nobody			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	explain speech: assert	present	King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	Knave	a pun		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:4.

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): R7-rel-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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