Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 9
The next witness is the Duchess's cook, carrying her pepper-box, and everyone near the door starts sneezing.
Who acts: next witness, cook, everyone · What happens: be, carry, start, sneezing · To what, where: cook, pepper box
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, cook, everyone), 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 | _ | 10 carrying | punct |
| 10 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 cook | acl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 box | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pepper | pepper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 box | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 pepper | punct |
| 14 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carrying | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 starts | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 starts | cc |
| 17 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 starts | nsubj |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 door | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 everyone | nmod |
| 21 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 carrying | conj |
| 22 | sneezing | sneezing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 starts | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cook | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the next witness | the Duchess's cook | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | the Duchess's cook not said here | Alice's pepper box | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | present | everyone | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sneezing | gerund | everyone 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:9.
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): 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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