--- title: The King, relieved, asks the Queen to question the next witness, as… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics description: The King, relieved, asks the Queen to question the next witness, as it makes his forehead ache. Who acts: witness, King. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? 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(the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 12 The King, relieved, asks the Queen to question the next witness, as it makes his forehead ache. **Who acts:** witness, King · **What happens:** ask, question, make, ache · **To what, where:** Queen, next witness, forehead ache This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise 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 (witness, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:12 # text = The King, relieved, asks the Queen to question the next witness, as it makes his forehead ache. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 relieved relieved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 question question VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 forehead forehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 ache ache NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | | | the Queen | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **question** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | the next witness | | | | | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Recipient | | 3 | **make** | present | witness | King's forehead ache | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material ache=Product | | 4 | **ache** | | King | | | | | | nom ache «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:12`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/11/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/)