--- title: The King decides that the Knave must have imitated someone's handwri… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: The King decides that the Knave must have imitated someone's handwriting, and that not signing it proves he is up to mischief. Who acts: King, Knave, someone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Knave, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:12 # text = The King decides that the Knave must have imitated someone's handwriting, and that not signing it proves he is up to mischief. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 023-alice-alices-evidence-1.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 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Knave knave NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux _ _ 9 imitated imitate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 10 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 handwriting handwriting NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 signing sign VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj 19 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 up up ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 mischief mischief NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 ccomp _ _ 25 . . 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 | **decide** | present | the King | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **imitate** | must · perfect | the Knave | someone's handwriting | | | | | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handwriting=Theme | | 3 | **not** **sign** | gerund | the King *not said here* | handwriting | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | | 4 | **prove** | present | | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | King | | | | | up mischief | tree rules | | 6 | **handwrite** | | someone | | | | | | nom handwriting «communication 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:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:12`. **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 XII, part…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/11/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/)