Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 23
It's no business of mine», «surprised at her own courage»; the Queen turns crimson and screams «Off with her head!»; Alice says «Nonsense!» and the Queen is silent.
Who acts: pattern, Queen, Alice · What happens: be, turn, scream, say · To what, where: business, own courage, crimson, Nonsense · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pattern, Queen, Alice), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 business | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 business | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 business | det |
| 4 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mine | case |
| 6 | mine | mine | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 business | nmod |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 business | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 surprised | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 surprised | punct |
| 10 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 business | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 courage | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 courage | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 courage | amod |
| 14 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surprised | obl |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 surprised | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 turns | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Queen | det |
| 18 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 turns | nsubj |
| 19 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 business | parataxis |
| 20 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turns | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 screams | cc |
| 22 | screams | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 turns | conj |
| 23 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 Off | punct |
| 24 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 4 business | compound:prt |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 head | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 business | nmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 » | punct |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 business | punct |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 says | punct |
| 31 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 says | nsubj |
| 32 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 business | conj |
| 33 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 Nonsense | punct |
| 34 | Nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 says | obj |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 business | punct |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 41 silent | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 silent | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Queen | det |
| 39 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 silent | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 silent | cop |
| 41 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 business | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 business | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | pattern | no business | of mine; with Alice's head | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | pattern not said here | Alice's own courage | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | present | the Queen | crimson | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crimson=Theme | ||||
| 4 | scream speech: express in a quote | present | the Queen not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Alice | Nonsense | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nonsense=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the Queen | silent 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:23.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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