--- title: «It's always six o'clock now,» says the Hatter; Alice has a bright i… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: «It's always six o'clock now,» says the Hatter; Alice has a bright idea: «Is that the reason so many tea-things are put out here?», and the Hatter says yes; so it is always tea-time, and there is no time to wash the things «between whiles» (in between). Who acts: head, Hatter, Alice, bright idea. 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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 (head, Hatter, Alice, bright idea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:16 # text = «It's always six o'clock now,» says the Hatter; Alice has a bright idea: «Is that the reason so many tea-things are put out here?», and the Hatter says yes; so it is always tea-time, and there is no time to wash the things «between whiles» (in between). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 always always ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 o'clock o'clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 7 now now ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 10 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 21 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 29 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 41 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 40 ccomp _ _ 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 46 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 49 advmod _ _ 47 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ _ 49 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 ccomp _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 52 there there PRON EX _ 53 expl _ _ 53 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:conj|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 55 det _ _ 55 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 56 to to PART TO _ 57 mark _ _ 57 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 55 acl _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 obj _ _ 60 « « PUNCT `` _ 62 punct _ _ 61 between between ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 whiles while NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=59:conj 63 » » PUNCT '' _ 62 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=57:punct 64 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 65 punct _ _ 65 in in ADP IN _ 57 obl _ _ 66 between between ADP IN _ 65 fixed _ _ 67 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 66 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=65:punct 68 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | head | six o'clock | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Hatter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** | present | Alice | a bright idea | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present · passive | a bright idea *not said here* | the reason | | here | | put *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | the Hatter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | head | tea time | | | | always *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | present | no time | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **wash** | to-infinitive | no time *not said here* | the things | | | while | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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](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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:16`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/15/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/)