--- title: The Hatter mumbles about «the twinkling of the tea»; the King says «… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics description: The Hatter mumbles about «the twinkling of the tea»; the King says «Of course twinkling begins with a T! Who acts: Hatter, King, twinkling. 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 19 The Hatter mumbles about «the twinkling of the tea»; the King says «Of course twinkling begins with a T! **Who acts:** Hatter, King, twinkling · **What happens:** mumble, say, begin · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Hatter, King, twinkling), 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:19 # text = The Hatter mumbles about «the twinkling of the tea»; the King says «Of course twinkling begins with a T! # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 mumbles mumble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 twinkling twinkling 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 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 King king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 Of of ADP IN ExtPos=ADV 20 advmod _ _ 18 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 fixed _ _ 19 twinkling twinkle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 T t NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mumble** *speech: other* | present | the Hatter | | | | | about the twinkling of the tea | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about twinkling=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present | the King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | present | twinkling | | | | | with a T | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with t=Subeventuality | 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:19`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/18/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/)