Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 5

His evidence is a muddle about bread-and-butter and «the twinkling of the tea», and the King keeps threatening to have him executed.

Who acts: evidence, King, room · What happens: be, keep, threaten, have, execute, evidence · To what, where: muddle, room

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 (evidence, King, room), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 evidence	nmod:poss
2	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 muddle	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 muddle	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 muddle	det
5	muddle	muddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 bread	case
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 muddle	nmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 butter	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 butter	cc
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bread	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 twinkling	cc
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 twinkling	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 twinkling	det
15	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 butter	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 tea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tea	det
18	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 twinkling	nmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 twinkling	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 keeps	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 keeps	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 keeps	nsubj
24	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 muddle	conj
25	threatening	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 keeps	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 have	mark
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 threatening	xcomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 have	obj
29	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 have	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 muddle	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	room's evidence	a muddle	about bread and butter and the twinkling of the tea	tree rules
2	keep	present	the King			tree rules
3	threaten	gerund	the King not said here			tree rules
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	the King not said here	room		tree rules
5	execute	participle	room not said here			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	evidence		room			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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-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.

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