--- title: Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness) — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness)», a lesson of the books course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In the middle of the trial Alice feels a curious sensation: she --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part… # Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness) Lesson 22 of the books course of Mova's primary school: 25 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/0/) — In the middle of the trial Alice feels a curious sensation: she is growing again. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/1/) — She decides to stay as long as there is room. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/2/) — The Dormouse, squashed beside her, grumbles that she has no right to grow here; Alice answers that he is growing too, and he says huffily that he grows «at a reasonable pace», and moves away. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/5/) — His evidence is a muddle about bread-and-butter and «the twinkling of the tea», and the King keeps threatening to have him executed. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/7/) — The King tells the Hatter he may «stand down»; the Hatter, kneeling, says he can't go any lower, so the King says he may «sit down». - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/8/) — The Hatter escapes without his shoes, just before the Queen's order to take his head off outside. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/9/) — The next witness is the Duchess's cook, carrying her pepper-box, and everyone near the door starts sneezing. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/11/) — In the confusion, the cook disappears. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/12/) — The King, relieved, asks the Queen to question the next witness, as it makes his forehead ache. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/13/) — Alice is curious who it will be, since they have hardly any evidence yet. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/14/) — Then the White Rabbit reads out, at the top of his shrill little voice, the name: «Alice!» - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/15/) — Alice begins «to grow larger again»; she first thinks of leaving the court, but decides to stay «as long as there was room for her». - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/17/) — The Queen asks for «the list of the singers in the last concert», and the Hatter trembles so that «he shook both his shoes off». - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/18/) — The King: «Give your evidence, or I'll have you executed, whether you're nervous or not.» - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/19/) — The Hatter mumbles about «the twinkling of the tea»; the King says «Of course twinkling begins with a T! - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/20/) — Do you take me for a dunce?» (dunce = a stupid pupil). - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/22/) — «I'm a poor man, your Majesty.» — «You're a very poor speaker.» The King plays on poor = having little money, and poor = bad. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/23/) — «Suppressed» means stopped or held down; here the officers put the cheering guinea-pig head first into a canvas bag and sit on it; later a second guinea-pig cheers and is suppressed too, and Alice thinks «Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!» - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/26/) — The next witness is the Duchess's cook; Alice guesses who it is before she enters, because people near the door begin sneezing. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/27/) — To «cross-examine» means to question a witness closely; the King asks the cook «What are tarts made of?» and she answers «Pepper, mostly». - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/29/) — Behead that Dormouse! - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/30/) — Turn that Dormouse out of court! - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/31/) — Off with his whiskers!» (collar = grab), and by the time the court settles, the cook has gone. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/32/) — The King says to the Queen: «you must cross-examine the next witness. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/33/) — It quite makes my forehead ache!» - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 1: Who Stole the Tarts? (the court and the first witness)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/21-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-1/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/) - ↑ back to [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/)