Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 18
The King: «Give your evidence, or I'll have you executed, whether you're nervous or not.»
Who acts: Queen, you, your · What happens: give, have, execute, be, evidence · To what, where: evidence
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 (Queen, you, your), 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 | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Give | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Give | punct |
| 5 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 King | parataxis |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 evidence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Give | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 executed | nsubj |
| 14 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 have | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nervous | punct |
| 16 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 nervous | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 nervous | nsubj |
| 18 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 nervous | cop |
| 19 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 have | advcl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 not | cc |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 nervous | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Give | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | your evidence | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | future | the Queen = queen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | execute in a quote | participle | you | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | nervous property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | evidence in a quote | your | nom evidence «cognition 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:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:18.
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, R6-punct-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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