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title: The first witness is the Hatter, still holding his teacup and bread-… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: The first witness is the Hatter, still holding his teacup and bread-and-butter. Who acts: first witness. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 10

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The first witness is the Hatter, still holding his teacup and bread-and-butter.

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**Who acts:** first witness · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** Hatter, teacup

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first 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 (first witness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.lesson:10
# text = The first witness is the Hatter, still holding his teacup and bread-and-butter.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	teacup	teacup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the first witness | the Hatter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | the first witness *not said here* | Knave's teacup and bread and butter |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacup=Theme |

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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.

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**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:021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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