Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 12

The King decides that the Knave must have imitated someone's handwriting, and that not signing it proves he is up to mischief.

Who acts: King, Knave, someone · What happens: decide, imitate, not sign, prove, be, handwrite · To what, where: handwriting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)» 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, Knave, someone), 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 decides	nsubj
3	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 imitated	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Knave	det
6	Knave	knave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 imitated	nsubj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 imitated	aux
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 imitated	aux
9	imitated	imitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 decides	ccomp
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 handwriting	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 someone	case
12	handwriting	handwriting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 imitated	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 signing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 signing	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 signing	mark
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 signing	advmod
17	signing	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 decides	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 signing	obj
19	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 signing	parataxis
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 mischief	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 mischief	cop
22	up	up	ADP	_	24 mischief	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 mischief	case
24	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 proves	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 decides	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	decide	present	the King			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	imitate	must · perfect	the Knave	someone's handwriting		vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handwriting=Theme
3	not sign	gerund	the King not said here	handwriting		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
4	prove	present				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	King		up mischief	tree rules
6	handwrite		someone			nom handwriting «communication 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:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:12.

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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