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(the court and the first witness), sentence 8 The White Rabbit blows three blasts on the trumpet and reads the accusation as a nursery rhyme: the Queen made some tarts, and the Knave stole them. **Who acts:** White Rabbit, Queen, Knave · **What happens:** blow, read, make, steal · **To what, where:** three blasts, trumpet, accusation, tarts 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, Queen, Knave), 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:8 # text = The White Rabbit blows three blasts on the trumpet and reads the accusation as a nursery rhyme: the Queen made some tarts, and the Knave stole them. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 blows blow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 blasts blast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 trumpet trumpet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 accusation accusation NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 nursery nursery NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 tarts tart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Knave Knave PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 stole steal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blow** | present | the White Rabbit | three blasts | | the trumpet | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient | | 2 | **read** | present | the White Rabbit *not said here* | the accusation | | | | as a nursery rhyme | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer accusation=Stimulus as rhyme=Attribute | | 3 | **make** | past | the Queen | some tarts | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=Product | | 4 | **steal** | past | the Knave | tarts *= tart* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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. 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