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(the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 7 The King tells the Hatter he may «stand down»; the Hatter, kneeling, says he can't go any lower, so the King says he may «sit down». **Who acts:** King, Hatter · **What happens:** tell, stand down, kneel, say, not go, sit down · **To what, where:** Hatter · **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 (King, 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:7 # text = The King tells the Hatter he may «stand down»; the Hatter, kneeling, says he can't go any lower, so the King says he may «sit down». # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:aux 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 10 down down ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 kneeling kneel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 acl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 23 any any ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 lower low ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 33 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 34 down down ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 36 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the King | | the Hatter | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent hatter=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **stand down** *in a quote* | may | King | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **kneel** | gerund | the Hatter *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Hatter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **go** | can | King | | | | | low *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **sit down** *in a quote* | may | King | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:7`. **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 ×2. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/5/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/)