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title: The accusation: «The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: The accusation: «The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!» — a real old nursery rhyme. Who acts: Rabbit, All. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 23

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The accusation: «The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!» — a real old nursery rhyme.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, All · **What happens:** make, steal, take · **To what, where:** tarts

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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 (Rabbit, All), 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:23
# text = The accusation: «The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!» — a real old nursery rhyme.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	accusation	accusation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	tarts	tart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
15	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Knave	knave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Hearts	Heart	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	tarts	tart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:parataxis
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
37	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
38	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
41	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **make** *in a quote* | past | Rabbit | some tarts |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=Product |
| 2 | **steal** *in a quote* | past | All | that tarts |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tart=Theme |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | past | All *not said here* | tarts *= tart* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:23`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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