Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 1

They squabble and blame each other, and one of them, Two, explains to Alice in a whisper: they planted a white rose-tree by mistake instead of a red one, and if the Queen finds out, they will all lose their heads.

Who acts: gardeners, one, Queen · What happens: squabble, blame, explain, plant, find out, lose · To what, where: other, Alice, whisper, white rose tree, heads

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red)» 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 (gardeners, one, Queen), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 squabble	nsubj
2	squabble	squabble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 blame	cc
4	blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 squabble	conj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 other	det
6	other	other	PRON	PronType=Rcp	4 blame	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 explains	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 explains	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 explains	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Two	punct
13	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 one	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 explains	punct
15	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 squabble	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Alice	case
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 explains	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 whisper	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 whisper	det
20	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 explains	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 planted	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 planted	nsubj
23	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 explains	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 tree	det
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tree	amod
26	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tree	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 rose	punct
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 planted	obj
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 mistake	case
30	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 planted	obl
31	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	35 one	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	31 instead	fixed
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 one	det
34	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 one	amod
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 planted	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 lose	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 lose	cc
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 finds	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Queen	det
40	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 finds	nsubj
41	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 lose	advcl
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 finds	compound:prt
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 finds	punct
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 lose	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 lose	aux
46	all	all	ADV	_	47 lose	advmod
47	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 planted	conj
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 heads	nmod:poss
49	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 lose	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 squabble	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	squabble	present	gardeners = gardener					vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	blame	present	gardeners = gardener not said here	other				vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
3	explain speech: assert	present	one of gardeners		Alice	a whisper		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to alice=Recipient
4	plant	past	gardeners = gardener	a white rose tree			by mistake; instead a red one	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme by mistake=Destination
5	find out a condition, not said to happen	present	the Queen					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	lose	future	gardeners = gardener	gardeners's heads			all property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

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:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×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.

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