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title: The Queen asks for «the list of the singers in the last concert», an… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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». Who acts: Queen, Hatter. 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 book
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 17

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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».

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**Who acts:** Queen, Hatter · **What happens:** ask, tremble, shook off, list · **To what, where:** shoes, singers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Queen, Hatter), 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:17
# text = 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».
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	concert	concert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
19	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	trembles	tremble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	shook	shook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	both	both	DET	PDT	_	28	det:predet	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:cc:preconj|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Queen |  |  |  |  | for the list of the singers in the last concert | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tremble** | present | the Hatter |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shook off** *in a quote* | past | Hatter | Hatter's shoes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **list** *in a quote* |  |  | the singers in the last concert |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:17`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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