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title: The King: «The trial cannot proceed until all the jurymen are back i… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics
description: The King: «The trial cannot proceed until all the jurymen are back in their proper places—all», looking hard at Alice. Who acts: trial, jurymen. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)» of the books course of Mova'
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter), sentence 18

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The King: «The trial cannot proceed until all the jurymen are back in their proper places—all», looking hard at Alice.

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**Who acts:** trial, jurymen · **What happens:** not proceed, be, look

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice's Evidence (Rule Forty-two and the unsigned letter)» 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 (trial, jurymen), 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:18
# text = The King: «The trial cannot proceed until all the jurymen are back in their proper places—all», looking hard at Alice.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
10	until	until	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	jurymen	juryman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl
25	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **proceed** *in a quote* | can | the trial |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | all jurymen |  |  |  | until jurymen's proper places |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | the trial *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Alice; hard *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at alice=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:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:18`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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