Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 12
The King, relieved, asks the Queen to question the next witness, as it makes his forehead ache.
Who acts: witness, King · What happens: ask, question, make, ache · To what, where: Queen, next witness, forehead ache
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise 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 (witness, King), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 relieved | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 relieved | punct |
| 4 | relieved | relieved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asks | punct |
| 6 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 relieved | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asks | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 question | mark |
| 10 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asks | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 witness | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 witness | amod |
| 13 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 question | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 makes | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 makes | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 makes | nsubj |
| 17 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 asks | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ache | nmod:poss |
| 19 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ache | compound |
| 20 | ache | ache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 makes | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the Queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | question speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | the next witness | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | make | present | witness | King's forehead ache | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material ache=Product | ||||
| 4 | ache | King | nom ache «state intransitive»: 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:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:12.
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): R6-punct-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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