--- title: Alice grumbles that they are wasting time, and the Hatter says Time… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice grumbles that they are wasting time, and the Hatter says Time is a person, «him», who will move the clock for you if you are friends. Who acts: Alice, elbows, Hatter, Time. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, elbows, Hatter, Time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:8 # text = Alice grumbles that they are wasting time, and the Hatter says Time is a person, «him», who will move the clock for you if you are friends. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grumbles grumble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 wasting waste VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 13 Time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 appos _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl:relcl 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grumble** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **waste** | present · progressive | elbows *= elbow* | | | | time | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Hatter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | Time | a person | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **move** | future | a person | the clock | | | | for you | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent clock=Theme | | 6 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | friends | | | | | 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. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:8`. **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 ×3, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/7/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/)