Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 23
The accusation: «The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!» — a real old nursery rhyme.
Who acts: Rabbit, All · What happens: make, steal, take · To what, where: tarts
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 (Rabbit, All), 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 accusation | det |
| 2 | accusation | accusation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hearts | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hearts | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hearts | compound |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Hearts | case |
| 8 | Hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 accusation | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 accusation | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 accusation | appos |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 tarts | det |
| 13 | tarts | tart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stole | punct |
| 15 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 stole | nsubj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | compound |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 All | nmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Knave | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Knave | det |
| 22 | Knave | knave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Hearts | case |
| 24 | Hearts | Heart | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 Knave | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stole | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 stole | nsubj |
| 27 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | conj |
| 28 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 tarts | det |
| 29 | tarts | tart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 stole | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 took | punct |
| 31 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 took | cc |
| 32 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 stole | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 took | obj |
| 34 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 35 away | advmod |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 took | advmod |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 stole | punct |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 38 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 rhyme | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 rhyme | det |
| 40 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 rhyme | amod |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 rhyme | amod |
| 42 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 rhyme | compound |
| 43 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 accusation | appos |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 accusation | 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 | make in a quote | past | Rabbit | some tarts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=Product | ||||
| 2 | steal in a quote | past | All | that tarts | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | past | All not said here | tarts = tart | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:23.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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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