Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 8

The White Rabbit blows three blasts on the trumpet and reads the accusation as a nursery rhyme: the Queen made some tarts, and the Knave stole them.

Who acts: White Rabbit, Queen, Knave · What happens: blow, read, make, steal · To what, where: three blasts, trumpet, accusation, 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 (White Rabbit, Queen, Knave), 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	4 blows	nsubj
4	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 blasts	nummod
6	blasts	blast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blows	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 trumpet	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trumpet	det
9	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blows	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 reads	cc
11	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blows	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 accusation	det
13	accusation	accusation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reads	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 rhyme	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rhyme	det
16	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rhyme	compound
17	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reads	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queen	det
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blows	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 tarts	det
23	tarts	tart	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 made	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stole	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stole	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Knave	det
27	Knave	Knave	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 stole	nsubj
28	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stole	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blows	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow	present	the White Rabbit	three blasts	the trumpet		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient
2	read	present	the White Rabbit not said here	the accusation		as a nursery rhyme	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer accusation=Stimulus as rhyme=Attribute
3	make	past	the Queen	some tarts			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=Product
4	steal	past	the Knave	tarts = tart			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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:8.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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