--- title: The next witness is the Duchess's cook, carrying her pepper-box, and… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics description: The next witness is the Duchess's cook, carrying her pepper-box, and everyone near the door starts sneezing. Who acts: next witness, cook, everyone. 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 9 The next witness is the Duchess's cook, carrying her pepper-box, and everyone near the door starts sneezing. **Who acts:** next witness, cook, everyone · **What happens:** be, carry, start, sneezing · **To what, where:** cook, pepper box 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, cook, everyone), 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:9 # text = The next witness is the Duchess's cook, carrying her pepper-box, and everyone near the door starts 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): 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 , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 pepper pepper NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 14 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 21 nsubj _ _ 18 near near ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 sneezing sneezing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - 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 | the next witness | the Duchess's cook | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | gerund | the Duchess's cook *not said here* | Alice's pepper box | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | | 3 | **start** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **sneezing** | gerund | everyone *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:9`. **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): 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…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/8/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/)