Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 1

Then the Mouse says Alice needs a prize too, so the Dodo takes her own thimble and solemnly presents it back to her, and everyone cheers; Alice finds it absurd but keeps a straight face.

Who acts: Mouse, Alice, Dodo, everyone · What happens: say, need, take, present back, cheer, find · To what, where: prize, own thimble, Dodo, straight face · 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 (Mouse, Alice, Dodo, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 says	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mouse	det
3	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 needs	nsubj
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 prize	det
8	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	6 needs	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 takes	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 takes	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dodo	det
13	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 takes	nsubj
14	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 thimble	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thimble	amod
17	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 takes	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 presents	cc
19	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	20 presents	advmod
20	presents	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 takes	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 presents	obj
22	back	back	ADV	_	20 presents	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 presents	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cheers	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cheers	cc
27	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 cheers	nsubj
28	cheers	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 finds	punct
30	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 finds	nsubj
31	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 finds	obj
33	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 finds	xcomp
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 keeps	cc
35	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 finds	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 face	det
37	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 face	amod
38	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 keeps	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Mouse			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	present	Alice	a prize				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prize=Theme
3	take	present	the Dodo	Dodo's own thimble				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thimble=Theme
4	present back	present	the Dodo not said here	prize	Dodo		solemnly property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to her=Recipient
5	cheer	present	everyone					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	find	present	Alice	prize			absurd property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
7	keep	present	Alice not said here	a straight face				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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