--- title: The King says «they all returned from him to you» means the tarts on… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: The King says «they all returned from him to you» means the tarts on the table, and «Nothing can be clearer than that». Who acts: King, verses, Nothing. 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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, verses, Nothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:24 # text = The King says «they all returned from him to you» means the tarts on the table, and «Nothing can be clearer than that». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 024-alice-alices-evidence-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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 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 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:PronType=Tot 7 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tarts tart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 « « SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 25 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 25 clearer clear ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 ccomp _ _ 26 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **return** *in a quote* | past | verses *= verse* | | you | | | from King | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from he=Initial\_State to you=Result | | 3 | **mean** | present | | the tarts | | the table | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=Topic | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | can | Nothing | | | | | than »; that *obl*; clear *property* | 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:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:24`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/23/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/)