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(the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 26 The next witness is the Duchess's cook; Alice guesses who it is before she enters, because people near the door begin sneezing. **Who acts:** next witness, Alice, witness, people · **What happens:** be, guess, enter, begin, sneezing · **To what, where:** cook · **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 (next witness, Alice, witness, people), 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:26 # text = The next witness is the Duchess's cook; Alice guesses who it is before she enters, because people near the door begin sneezing. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 witness witness NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 guesses guess VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 dep _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 15 before before SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 enters enter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 21 near near ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 begin begin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 25 sneezing sneezing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 xcomp _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the next witness | the Duchess's cook | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **guess** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** | present | witness | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **enter** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **begin** | present | people near the door | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **sneezing** | gerund | people near the door *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:26`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/23/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/)