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(the court and the first witness), sentence 22 The White Rabbit is the herald, the officer who reads announcements; he blows three blasts on the trumpet before reading the accusation, and three more before calling out «First witness!» **Who acts:** White Rabbit, officer, Alice · **What happens:** be, read, blow, call out · **To what, where:** herald, announcements, three blasts, trumpet, accusation, First witness 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 (White Rabbit, officer, 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:22 # text = The White Rabbit is the herald, the officer who reads announcements; he blows three blasts on the trumpet before reading the accusation, and three more before calling out «First witness!» # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Rabbit rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 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 herald herald NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 officer officer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 announcements announcement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 blasts blast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 trumpet trumpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 21 before before SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 accusation accusation NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 conj _ _ 29 before before SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 advcl _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 33 First first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 amod _ _ 34 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obl 35 ! ! PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the White Rabbit | the herald | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **read** | present | the officer | announcements | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent announcement=Topic | | 3 | **blow** | present | Alice | three blasts | | the trumpet | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient | | 4 | **read** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | the accusation | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accusation=Topic | | 5 | **call out** *speech: assert* | gerund | Alice *not said here* | First witness | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent witness=Recipient | 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:22`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/21/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/)