Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 3
The Queen!» — the gardeners throw themselves flat on their faces, and a grand procession marches in: ten soldiers with clubs, ten courtiers with diamonds, ten royal children with hearts, the guests (the White Rabbit among them), the Knave of Hearts carrying the crown on a cushion, and last of all the King and Queen of Hearts.
Who acts: Queen, grand procession, Knave · What happens: throw, march in, carry · To what, where: gardeners, faces, crown, cushion
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, grand procession, Knave), 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 | 8 throw | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gardeners | det |
| 7 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 throw | nsubj |
| 8 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 throw | obj |
| 10 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 throw | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 faces | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 faces | nmod:poss |
| 13 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 throw | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 marches | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 marches | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 procession | det |
| 17 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 procession | amod |
| 18 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 marches | nsubj |
| 19 | marches | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 throw | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 marches | compound:prt |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 soldiers | punct |
| 22 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 soldiers | nummod |
| 23 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 marches | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 clubs | case |
| 25 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 soldiers | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 courtiers | punct |
| 27 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 courtiers | nummod |
| 28 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 soldiers | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 diamonds | case |
| 30 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 courtiers | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 children | punct |
| 32 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 children | nummod |
| 33 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 children | amod |
| 34 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 soldiers | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 hearts | case |
| 36 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 children | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 guests | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 guests | det |
| 39 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 soldiers | conj |
| 40 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 43 Rabbit | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Rabbit | det |
| 42 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Rabbit | amod |
| 43 | Rabbit | rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 guests | appos |
| 44 | among | among | ADP | _ | 45 them | case |
| 45 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 Rabbit | nmod |
| 46 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 43 Rabbit | punct |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Knave | punct |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Knave | det |
| 49 | Knave | Knave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 soldiers | conj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Hearts | case |
| 51 | Hearts | Heart | PROPN | Number=Plur | 49 Knave | nmod |
| 52 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 49 Knave | acl |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 crown | det |
| 54 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 carrying | obj |
| 55 | on | on | ADP | _ | 57 cushion | case |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 cushion | det |
| 57 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 carrying | obl |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 last | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 last | cc |
| 60 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Knave | conj |
| 61 | of | of | ADP | _ | 68 Hearts | case |
| 62 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 68 Hearts | det:predet |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 King | det |
| 64 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 68 Hearts | compound |
| 65 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 66 Queen | cc |
| 66 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 King | conj |
| 67 | of | of | ADP | _ | 68 Hearts | case |
| 68 | Hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 60 last | obl |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw in a quote | present | the Queen | gardeners = gardener | gardeners's faces | flat property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on face=Destination | ||
| 2 | march in in a quote | present | a grand procession | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | gerund | the Knave of Hearts not said here | the crown | a cushion | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=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:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:3.
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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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