--- title: Another juror's pencil squeaks; Alice sneaks behind him and takes it… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics description: Another juror's pencil squeaks; Alice sneaks behind him and takes it, and poor Bill the Lizard has to write with his finger, which leaves no mark at all. Who acts: pencil, Alice, poor Bill, finger. 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 7 Another juror's pencil squeaks; Alice sneaks behind him and takes it, and poor Bill the Lizard has to write with his finger, which leaves no mark at all. **Who acts:** pencil, Alice, poor Bill, finger · **What happens:** squeak, sneak, take, have, write, leave · **To what, where:** pencil, mark, all 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 (pencil, Alice, poor Bill, finger), 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:7 # text = Another juror's pencil squeaks; Alice sneaks behind him and takes it, and poor Bill the Lizard has to write with his finger, which leaves no mark at all. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Another another DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 juror juror NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 pencil pencil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound 5 squeaks squeak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sneaks sneak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 9 behind behind ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Lizard Lizard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squeak** | present | another juror's pencil | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sneak** | present | Alice | | | | | behind Knave | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory | | 3 | **take** | present | Alice *not said here* | pencil | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | poor Bill | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **write** | to-infinitive | poor Bill *not said here* | | | | | with Alice's finger | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **leave** | present | Alice's finger | no mark | | all | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mark=Theme at all=Location | 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. 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