Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 15
"You are not attending!" (not paying attention) says the Mouse; Alice thinks it has got "to the fifth bend", and when it cries "I had not!", she thinks it said "a knot" and offers to undo it.
Who acts: You, Mouse, Alice, tale · What happens: not attend, not pay, say, think, get, cry · To what, where: attention, knot, tale · 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 (You, Mouse, Alice, tale), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 attending | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 attending | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 attending | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 attending | advmod |
| 5 | attending | attend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 says | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 attending | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 attending | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 paying | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 paying | advmod |
| 10 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 attending | parataxis |
| 11 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paying | obj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 paying | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Mouse | det |
| 15 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinks | punct |
| 17 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 thinks | nsubj |
| 18 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 says | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 got | aux |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 thinks | ccomp |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinks | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 bend | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bend | det |
| 25 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bend | amod |
| 26 | bend | bend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thinks | obl |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 bend | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cries | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cries | cc |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 cries | advmod |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cries | nsubj |
| 32 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 says | conj |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 had | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 cries | ccomp |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 had | advmod |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 thinks | punct |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 thinks | nsubj |
| 41 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 says | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 said | nsubj |
| 43 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 thinks | ccomp |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 knot | punct |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 knot | det |
| 46 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 said | obj |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 knot | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 offers | cc |
| 49 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 thinks | conj |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 undo | mark |
| 51 | undo | undo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 offers | xcomp |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 undo | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not attend in a quote | present · progressive | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not pay | gerund | attention | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | present | the Mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | Alice | to the fifth bend | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | present · perfect | tale | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | present | tale | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | not have in a quote | past | tale | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | think speech: other | present | Mouse | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | say speech: assert | past | tale | a knot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent knot=Topic | ||||
| 10 | offer | present | Mouse not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 11 | undo not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mouse not said here | tale | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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