--- title: In the middle is a dish of tarts that look so good that Alice wishes… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics description: In the middle is a dish of tarts that look so good that Alice wishes they'd hurry up and hand round the refreshments. Who acts: tarts, Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? 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(the court and the first witness), sentence 2 In the middle is a dish of tarts that look so good that Alice wishes they'd hurry up and hand round the refreshments. **Who acts:** tarts, Alice · **What happens:** be, look, wish, hurry up, hand round · **To what, where:** dish, middle, refreshments · **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 (tarts, Alice), 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:2 # text = In the middle is a dish of tarts that look so good that Alice wishes they'd hurry up and hand round the refreshments. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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 6 obl _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 tarts tart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advcl 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 wishes wish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 hurry hurry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 hand hand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 22 round round ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 refreshments refreshment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - 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 | | a dish | | the middle | | of tarts | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present | tarts | | | | | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **wish** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **hurry up** | would | tarts *= tart* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hand round** | infinitive | tarts *= tart* *not said here* | the refreshments | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refreshment=Theme | 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:2`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/1/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/)