Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 1
The King and Queen of Hearts sit on their throne, the Knave of Hearts stands in chains between two soldiers, and the White Rabbit holds a trumpet and a scroll.
Who acts: King, Knave, White Rabbit · What happens: sit, stand, hold · To what, where: throne, chains, trumpet
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Knave, White Rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Queen | cc |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Hearts | case |
| 6 | Hearts | Heart | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 King | nmod |
| 7 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 throne | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 throne | nmod:poss |
| 10 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sit | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stands | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Knave | det |
| 13 | Knave | Knave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stands | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Hearts | case |
| 15 | Hearts | Heart | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Knave | nmod |
| 16 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sit | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 chains | case |
| 18 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stands | obl |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 soldiers | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 soldiers | nummod |
| 21 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 chains | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 holds | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 holds | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Rabbit | det |
| 25 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Rabbit | amod |
| 26 | Rabbit | rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 holds | nsubj |
| 27 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sit | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 trumpet | det |
| 29 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 holds | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 scroll | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 scroll | det |
| 32 | scroll | scroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 trumpet | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the King of Hearts and Queen | King's throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | the Knave of Hearts | chains between two soldiers | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chain=Location | ||||
| 3 | hold | present | the White Rabbit | a trumpet and a scroll | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trumpet=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, 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:021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.lesson:1.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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.
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