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title: The King says «Consider your verdict» at once, and the Rabbit has to… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: The King says «Consider your verdict» at once, and the Rabbit has to stop him: there's a great deal to come first! Who acts: King, Rabbit, great deal. 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 Mov
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness), sentence 9

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The King says «Consider your verdict» at once, and the Rabbit has to stop him: there's a great deal to come first!

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**Who acts:** King, Rabbit, great deal · **What happens:** say, consider, have, stop, be, come · **To what, where:** verdict, Knave · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (King, Rabbit, great deal), 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:9
# text = The King says «Consider your verdict» at once, and the Rabbit has to stop him: there's a great deal to come first!
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	verdict	verdict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	advmod	_	_
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **consider** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your verdict |  |  |  | once *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent verdict=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | present | the Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | the Rabbit *not said here* | Knave |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality |
| 5 | **be** | present | a great deal |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | to-infinitive | a great deal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9`.

**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, 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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