--- title: His evidence is a muddle about bread-and-butter and «the twinkling o… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics description: His evidence is a muddle about bread-and-butter and «the twinkling of the tea», and the King keeps threatening to have him executed. Who acts: evidence, King, room. 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 5 His evidence is a muddle about bread-and-butter and «the twinkling of the tea», and the King keeps threatening to have him executed. **Who acts:** evidence, King, room · **What happens:** be, keep, threaten, have, execute, evidence · **To what, where:** muddle, room 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 (evidence, King, room), 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:5 # text = His evidence is a muddle about bread-and-butter and «the twinkling of the tea», and the King keeps threatening to have him executed. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 muddle muddle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 butter butter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 twinkling twinkling NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 threatening threaten VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 executed execute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | room's evidence | a muddle | | | | about bread and butter and the twinkling of the tea | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present | the King | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **threaten** | gerund | the King *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | room | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **execute** | participle | room *not said here* | | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **evidence** | | room | | | | | | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: 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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/2/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/)