--- title: Eating the comfits is noisy: the large birds cannot taste theirs, an… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics description: Eating the comfits is noisy: the large birds cannot taste theirs, and the small ones choke and have to be patted on the back. Who acts: Eating, large birds, small ones. 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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 (Eating, large birds, small ones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:10 # text = Eating the comfits is noisy: the large birds cannot taste theirs, and the small ones choke and have to be patted on the back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.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): no change 1 Eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 comfits comfit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 13 theirs their PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 choke choke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 patted pat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 xcomp _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | gerund | | the comfits | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfit=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | Eating | | | | | noisy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **taste** | can | the large birds | comfits *= comfit* | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme their=Attribute | | 4 | **choke** | present | the small ones | | | | | | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **have** | present | the small ones *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pat** | to-infinitive · passive | the small ones *not said here* | | | | | on the back | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: on back=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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