Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 11

Then the game begins, and it is the strangest croquet ever: live hedgehogs for balls, live flamingoes for mallets, and soldiers bent double for the arches.

Who acts: game, soldiers · What happens: begin, be, bent · To what, where: strangest croquet

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 (game, soldiers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 begins	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begins	nsubj
4	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 croquet	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 croquet	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 croquet	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 croquet	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 croquet	det
10	strangest	strange	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 croquet	amod
11	croquet	croquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begins	conj
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 croquet	advmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 hedgehogs	punct
14	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hedgehogs	amod
15	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 croquet	appos
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 balls	case
17	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hedgehogs	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flamingoes	punct
19	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 flamingoes	amod
20	flamingoes	flamingoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hedgehogs	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 mallets	case
22	mallets	mallet	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 flamingoes	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bent	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bent	cc
25	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bent	nsubj
26	bent	bent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 hedgehogs	conj
27	double	double	ADV	_	26 bent	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 arches	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 arches	det
30	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bent	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begins	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	present	the game		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	present	game	the strangest croquet	ever		tree rules
3	bent	participle	soldiers			for the arches; double 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, 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:11.

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): no change. 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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