Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 15
Off with his head!»; to murder the time also means to sing it badly out of rhythm.
What happens: murder, mean, sing · To what, where: head, rhythm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 4 head | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 head | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 head | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 head | punct |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 murder | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 murder | mark |
| 9 | murder | murder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 means | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 murder | obj |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 means | advmod |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 head | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sing | mark |
| 15 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 means | xcomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sing | obj |
| 17 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 sing | advmod |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 rhythm | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 out | fixed |
| 20 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 head | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | murder in a quote | to-infinitive | time | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | sing speech: express not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | head | rhythm | badly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
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, 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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:15.
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): 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.
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