Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 26

The next witness is the Duchess's cook; Alice guesses who it is before she enters, because people near the door begin sneezing.

Who acts: next witness, Alice, witness, people · What happens: be, guess, enter, begin, sneezing · To what, where: cook · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (next witness, Alice, witness, people), 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 witness	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 witness	amod
3	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cook	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cook	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Duchess	det
6	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cook	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Duchess	case
8	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 guesses	punct
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 guesses	nsubj
11	guesses	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cook	parataxis
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 is	dep
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 is	nsubj
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 guesses	ccomp
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 enters	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 enters	nsubj
17	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 guesses	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 people	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 begin	mark
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 begin	nsubj
21	near	near	ADP	_	23 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 people	nmod
24	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 guesses	advcl
25	sneezing	sneezing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 begin	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cook	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the next witness	the Duchess's cook	tree rules
2	guess	present	Alice		vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	present	witness		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	enter	present	Alice		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	present	people near the door		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	sneezing	gerund	people near the door not said here		tree rules

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:26.

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, 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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