Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 32
The King says to the Queen: «you must cross-examine the next witness.
Who acts: King, Queen · What happens: say, cross-examine · To what, where: Queen, next witness · 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 (King, Queen), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Queen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 cross-examine | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 cross-examine | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 cross-examine | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cross-examine | aux |
| 11 | cross-examine | cross-examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 witness | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 witness | amod |
| 14 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cross-examine | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=request, indirect=1, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the King | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cross-examine speech: other in a quote | must | the Queen = queen | the next witness | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Recipient |
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:32.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/32/