--- title: In the middle of the chorus a cry rings out: «The trial's beginning!… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 2: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: In the middle of the chorus a cry rings out: «The trial's beginning!» The Gryphon grabs Alice's hand and runs, only ever answering «Come on!», while the sad words «Beautiful, beautiful Soup!» fade away behind them on the breeze. Who acts: cry, Gryphon, sad words, trial. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cry, Gryphon, sad words, trial), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:11 # text = In the middle of the chorus a cry rings out: «The trial's beginning!» The Gryphon grabs Alice's hand and runs, only ever answering «Come on!», while the sad words «Beautiful, beautiful Soup!» fade away behind them on the breeze. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 chorus chorus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 8 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 rings ring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 13 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 beginning beginning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Gryphon gryphon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 22 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 30 advmod _ _ 30 answering answer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 31 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 obj _ _ 33 on on ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 37 while while SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 41 « « PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 42 Beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 44 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 Soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 47 » » PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 48 fade fade VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 49 away away ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=48:compound:prt 50 behind behind ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ _ 52 on on ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ring out** | present | a cry | | | the middle of the chorus | | | tree rules | | 2 | **grab** | present | the Gryphon | Alice's hand | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 3 | **run** | present | the Gryphon *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **answer** *speech: express* | gerund | the Gryphon *not said here* | | | | ever | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come on** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fade away** | present | the sad words | | | the breeze | | behind hands *= hand*; away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **begin** *in a quote* | | the trial | | | | | | nom beginning «event 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:020-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-2.lesson:11`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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