Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 10

Eating the comfits is noisy: the large birds cannot taste theirs, and the small ones choke and have to be patted on the back.

Who acts: Eating, large birds, small ones · What happens: eat, be, not taste, choke, have, pat · To what, where: comfits

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 (Eating, large birds, small ones), 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	Eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 noisy	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 comfits	det
3	comfits	comfit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eating	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 noisy	cop
5	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 noisy	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birds	amod
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taste	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 taste	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 taste	advmod
12	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 noisy	parataxis
13	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 taste	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 choke	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 choke	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ones	det
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ones	amod
18	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 choke	nsubj
19	choke	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 taste	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 choke	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 patted	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 patted	aux:pass
24	patted	pat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 have	xcomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 back	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 back	det
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 patted	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 noisy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		the comfits		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfit=Patient
2	is	present	Eating		noisy property	tree rules
3	not taste	can	the large birds	comfits = comfit		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme their=Attribute
4	choke	present	the small ones			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	have	present	the small ones not said here			tree rules
6	pat	to-infinitive · passive	the small ones not said here		on the back	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: on back=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:10.

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): no change. 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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