Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 27
To «cross-examine» means to question a witness closely; the King asks the cook «What are tarts made of?» and she answers «Pepper, mostly».
Who acts: witness, King, cook · What happens: cross-examine, mean, question, ask, make, answer · To what, where: cook, tarts, Pepper · 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 (witness, King, cook), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 cross-examine | mark |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross-examine | punct |
| 3 | cross-examine | cross-examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross-examine | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 question | mark |
| 7 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 means | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 witness | det |
| 9 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 question | obj |
| 10 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 7 question | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 asks | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asks | nsubj |
| 14 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 means | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cook | det |
| 16 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asks | obj |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 asks | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 made | obl |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | tarts | tart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 asks | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 What | case |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 asks | punct |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 asks | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 answers | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 answers | nsubj |
| 27 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 asks | conj |
| 28 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 Pepper | punct |
| 29 | Pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 answers | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 answers | punct |
| 31 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 27 answers | advmod |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 answers | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross-examine speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | question speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | a witness | closely property | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | present | the King | the cook | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | present · passive | tarts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 6 | answer speech: assert | present | cook | Pepper | mostly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pepper=Eventuality |
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:27.
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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