Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 5
Then the Dodo thinks hard, finger on forehead, and announces that "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes": a silly, cheerful scene that pokes fun at pompous meetings and races with no rules.
Who acts: Dodo, Everybody, all, silly cheerful scene · What happens: think, announce, win, have, poke · To what, where: finger, prizes, fun · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dodo, Everybody, all, silly cheerful scene), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thinks | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dodo | det |
| 3 | Dodo | Dodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | nsubj |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 thinks | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 finger | punct |
| 7 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 forehead | case |
| 9 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finger | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 announces | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 announces | cc |
| 12 | announces | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinks | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 won | mark |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 won | punct |
| 15 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 won | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 won | aux |
| 17 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 announces | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 won | conj |
| 23 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 won | punct |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 scene | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 scene | det |
| 27 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 scene | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 silly | punct |
| 29 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 scene | amod |
| 30 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | obl |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 pokes | nsubj |
| 32 | pokes | poke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 scene | acl:relcl |
| 33 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pokes | obj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 meetings | case |
| 35 | pompous | pompous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 meetings | amod |
| 36 | meetings | meeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 pokes | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 races | cc |
| 38 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 meetings | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 rules | case |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 rules | det |
| 41 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 meetings | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | the Dodo | finger on forehead | then | a silly cheerful scene obl; hard property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | announce speech: other | present | the Dodo not said here | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | win in a quote | present · perfect | Everybody | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | must | all | prizes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Patient | ||||
| 5 | poke | present | a silly cheerful scene | fun | at pompous meetings with no rules and races | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent fun=Instrument at meeting=Theme |
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:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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