Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 1

The Mouse, who seems to be in charge, makes everyone sit in a ring and reads them "the driest thing" it knows: a boring history lesson about William the Conqueror.

Who acts: Mouse, everyone · What happens: seem, be, make, sit, read, know · To what, where: charge, everyone, ring, driest thing, Alice

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» 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 (Mouse, everyone), 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 Mouse	det
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mouse	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 seems	nsubj
5	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Mouse	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	9 charge	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 charge	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 charge	case
9	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seems	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 makes	punct
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 makes	obj
13	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 makes	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 ring	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ring	det
16	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sit	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 reads	cc
18	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 makes	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reads	iobj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 thing	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thing	det
22	driest	dry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 thing	amod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reads	obj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 thing	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knows	nsubj
26	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 thing	acl:relcl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 lesson	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lesson	det
29	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lesson	amod
30	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lesson	compound
31	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reads	obj
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 William	case
33	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 lesson	nmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Conqueror	det
35	Conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 William	flat
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 makes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	seem	present	the Mouse				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the Mouse not said here			charge	tree rules
3	make	present	the Mouse	everyone			tree rules
4	sit	infinitive	everyone not said here			a ring	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location
5	read	present	the Mouse not said here	the driest thing	Alice		tree rules
6	know	present	Mouse	the driest thing not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:1.

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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