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title: Off with his whiskers!» (collar = grab), and by the time the court s… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: Off with his whiskers!» (collar = grab), and by the time the court settles, the cook has gone. Who acts: court, cook. 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 wi
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 31

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Off with his whiskers!» (collar = grab), and by the time the court settles, the cook has gone.

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**Who acts:** court, cook · **What happens:** settle, go · **To what, where:** time

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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 (court, cook), 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:31
# text = Off with his whiskers!» (collar = grab), and by the time the court settles, the cook has gone.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	10	punct	_	_
10	grab	grab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
18	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	settles	settle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **settle** *in a quote* | present | the court | the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme time=Location |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the cook |  |  |  | time |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:31`.

**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 ×3, 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/).

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