Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 0
Everybody has won the race, so everybody needs a prize, and the Dodo says Alice must give them; luckily she has a box of comfits (little sugar sweets) in her pocket, exactly one each.
Who acts: Everybody, Dodo, Alice · What happens: win, need, say, give, have · To what, where: race, prize, them, box, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» 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 (Everybody, Dodo, Alice), 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 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 won | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 won | aux |
| 3 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 race | det |
| 5 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 won | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 needs | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 needs | advmod |
| 8 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 needs | nsubj |
| 9 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 won | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 prize | det |
| 11 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 needs | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 says | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dodo | det |
| 15 | Dodo | Dodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 says | nsubj |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 won | conj |
| 17 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 give | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 give | aux |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 says | ccomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 has | punct |
| 22 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 24 has | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 has | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 won | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 box | det |
| 26 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 has | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 comfits | case |
| 28 | comfits | comfit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 box | nmod |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 sweets | punct |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sweets | amod |
| 31 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sweets | compound |
| 32 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 comfits | appos |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 sweets | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 pocket | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 36 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 has | obl | ||
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 one | punct |
| 38 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 39 one | advmod |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 has | obj |
| 40 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 one | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 won | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present · perfect | Everybody | the race | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | need | present | everybody | a prize | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prize=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the Dodo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give | must | Alice | them = they | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | present | Alice | a box of comfits | Alice's pocket | luckily 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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:0.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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