Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 27

The Queen orders «Off with their heads!», and the procession moves on, with three of the soldiers staying behind to execute the gardeners; Alice says «You shan't be beheaded!» (shan't = shall not) and hides them in a large flower-pot.

Who acts: Queen, procession, soldiers, Alice · What happens: order off, move on, stay, execute, say, not behead · To what, where: gardeners, You, large flower pot · 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 (Queen, procession, soldiers, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 orders	nsubj
3	orders	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Off	punct
5	Off	off	ADP	_	3 orders	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 heads	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heads	nmod:poss
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 orders	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 heads	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 orders	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 moves	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 moves	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 procession	det
14	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 moves	nsubj
15	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 orders	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 moves	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 three	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 three	case
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 moves	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 soldiers	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 soldiers	det
22	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 three	nmod
23	staying	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 soldiers	acl
24	behind	behind	ADV	_	23 staying	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 execute	mark
26	execute	execute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 staying	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 gardeners	det
28	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 execute	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 says	punct
30	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 says	nsubj
31	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 orders	parataxis
32	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 says	punct
33	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 beheaded	nsubj:pass
34	sha	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 beheaded	aux
35	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 beheaded	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 beheaded	aux:pass
37	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 says	ccomp
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 beheaded	punct
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 beheaded	punct
40	(	(	PUNCT	_	41 sha	punct
41	sha	sha	X	_	31 says	parataxis
42	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 shall	advmod
43	=	=	PUNCT	_	44 shall	punct
44	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 sha	parataxis
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 shall	advmod
46	)	)	PUNCT	_	44 shall	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 hides	cc
48	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 says	conj
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 hides	obj
50	in	in	ADP	_	55 pot	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 pot	det
52	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 pot	amod
53	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 pot	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 flower	punct
55	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hides	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 orders	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	order off	present	the Queen			with gardeners's heads	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	move on	present	the procession			with three of the soldiers	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	stay	gerund	the soldiers not said here			behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	execute	to-infinitive	the soldiers not said here	the gardeners			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Patient
5	say speech: express	present	Alice				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not behead in a quote	shall · passive		You			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	hide	present	Alice not said here	gardeners = gardener	a large flower pot		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in pot=Location

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:27.

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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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