Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 22

The White Rabbit is the herald, the officer who reads announcements; he blows three blasts on the trumpet before reading the accusation, and three more before calling out «First witness!»

Who acts: White Rabbit, officer, Alice · What happens: be, read, blow, call out · To what, where: herald, announcements, three blasts, trumpet, accusation, First witness

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 (White Rabbit, officer, Alice), 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	3 Rabbit	det
2	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Rabbit	amod
3	Rabbit	rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 herald	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 herald	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 herald	det
6	herald	herald	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 officer	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 officer	det
9	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 herald	appos
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 reads	nsubj
11	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 officer	acl:relcl
12	announcements	announcement	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 reads	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 blows	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 blows	nsubj
15	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 reads	conj
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 blasts	nummod
17	blasts	blast	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 blows	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 trumpet	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trumpet	det
20	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blows	obl
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 reading	mark
22	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 blows	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 accusation	det
24	accusation	accusation	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reading	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 more	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 more	cc
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 more	nummod
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 blasts	conj
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 calling	mark
30	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 more	advcl
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 calling	compound:prt
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	34 witness	punct
33	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 witness	amod
34	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 calling	obj
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 more	punct
36	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 herald	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the White Rabbit	the herald		tree rules
2	read	present	the officer	announcements		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent announcement=Topic
3	blow	present	Alice	three blasts	the trumpet	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient
4	read	gerund	Alice not said here	the accusation		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accusation=Topic
5	call out speech: assert	gerund	Alice not said here	First witness		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent witness=Recipient

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:22.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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