Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 8
“Ahem!” said the Mouse with an important air, “are you all ready?
Who acts: Mouse, you · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11:140): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahem | punct |
| 2 | Ahem | ahem | INTJ | _ | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahem | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahem | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mouse | det |
| 7 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 10 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 air | amod |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ready | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 ready | punct |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ready | cop |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 ready | nsubj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 you | det |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Mouse | with a important air | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with air=Manner | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | ready 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.
Text: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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