--- title: There are twelve jurors, some animals and some birds, so Alice calls… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics description: There are twelve jurors, some animals and some birds, so Alice calls them «creatures»; she is proud of knowing the word «jurors», because she thinks very few little girls of her age know what it means, though «jury-men» would have done as well. 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(the court and the first witness), sentence 17 There are twelve jurors, some animals and some birds, so Alice calls them «creatures»; she is proud of knowing the word «jurors», because she thinks very few little girls of her age know what it means, though «jury-men» would have done as well. **Who acts:** twelve jurors, Alice, jury, few little girls, it, jury men · **What happens:** be, call, know, think, mean, do · **To what, where:** jurors, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (twelve jurors, Alice, jury, few little girls), 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:17 # text = There are twelve jurors, some animals and some birds, so Alice calls them «creatures»; she is proud of knowing the word «jurors», because she thinks very few little girls of her age know what it means, though «jury-men» would have done as well. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 jurors juror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 23 of of SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 24 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 jurors juror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 34 very very ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:parataxis 42 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 44 obj _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 ccomp _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 46 though though SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 47 « « PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 48 jury jury NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 49 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 48 punct _ _ 50 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nsubj _ _ 51 » » PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ _ 52 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 53 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 54 aux _ _ 54 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 advcl _ _ 55 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 54 advmod _ _ 56 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 55 fixed _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | twelve jurors and some animals and some birds | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | present | Alice | jurors *= juror* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | present | jury | | | | | proud *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | gerund | jury *not said here* | the word | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | jury | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **know** | present | few little girls of jury's age | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 8 | **do** | would · perfect | jury men | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:021-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1.lesson:17`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/15/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/)