--- title: «Take some more tea,» says the March Hare; Alice has had none, so sh… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: «Take some more tea,» says the March Hare; Alice has had none, so she «can't take more»; the Hatter says she means she can't take less, because «it's very easy to take more than nothing». Who acts: you, March Hare, Alice, Hatter. 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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 (you, March Hare, Alice, Hatter), 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:20 # text = «Take some more tea,» says the March Hare; Alice has had none, so she «can't take more»; the Hatter says she means she can't take less, because «it's very easy to take more than nothing». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 11 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 parataxis _ _ 16 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 obj _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 36 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 35 obj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 because because SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 39 « « PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:nsubj 41 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 very very ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 advcl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 csubj _ _ 46 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 45 obj _ _ 47 than than ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 46 obl _ _ 49 » » PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | some more tea | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent tea=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the March Hare | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present · perfect | Alice | none | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | | 4 | **not** **take** *in a quote* | can | Alice | more | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Hatter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **mean** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **not** **take** | can | Alice | less | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme | | 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | more | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | 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. 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