Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 7

The Mouse says Alice must have a prize herself; all she has left is a thimble (a small metal cap that protects your finger when sewing).

Who acts: Mouse, Alice, all, small metal cap · What happens: say, have, leave, be, protect, sew · To what, where: prize, thimble, finger · 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, all, small metal cap), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mouse	det
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 prize	det
8	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 have	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 thimble	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 thimble	nsubj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	nsubj
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 all	acl:relcl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thimble	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 thimble	det
17	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	parataxis
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 cap	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cap	det
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cap	amod
21	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cap	compound
22	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thimble	appos
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 protects	nsubj
24	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 cap	acl:relcl
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 finger	nmod:poss
26	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 protects	obj
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 sewing	mark
28	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 protects	advcl
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 cap	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Mouse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	must	Alice	a prize	Alice obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Patient
3	leave	present · perfect	Alice			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	all	a thimble		tree rules
5	protect	present	a small metal cap	your finger		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Beneficiary
6	sew	gerund	a small metal cap not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:7.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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