Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 19

The jurors write their names on slates «for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial» (a slate was a small board children wrote on with a slate-pencil).

Who acts: jurors, slate, children · What happens: write, forget, be, write on, name · To what, where: names, slates, small board · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (jurors, slate, children), 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 jurors	det
2	jurors	juror	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 write	nsubj
3	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 names	nmod:poss
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 write	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 slates	case
7	slates	slate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 write	obl
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 forget	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 fear	case
10	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forget	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forget	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 forget	aux
13	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 write	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forget	obj
15	before	before	ADP	_	17 end	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 end	det
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 forget	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 »	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trial	det
20	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 end	nmod
21	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 end	nmod
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 slate	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 slate	det
24	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 board	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 board	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 board	det
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 board	amod
28	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 »	parataxis
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 wrote	nsubj
30	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 board	acl:relcl
31	on	on	ADP	_	30 wrote	compound:prt
32	with	with	ADP	_	36 pencil	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 pencil	det
34	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pencil	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 slate	punct
36	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wrote	obl
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 wrote	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	the jurors	jurors's names	slates			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent name=Recipient clause=Topic
2	forget in a quote	should	jurors = juror	names = name		before the end the trial of »	for fear	tree rules
3	is a	past	a slate	a small board				tree rules
4	write on	past	children	a small board not said here			with a slate pencil	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme
5	name		jurors = juror					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:19.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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.

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