Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 5

The Queen asks her name; Alice answers very politely, but thinks to herself, «they're only a pack of cards, after all».

Who acts: Queen, Alice, gardeners · What happens: ask, answer, think, be, name · To what, where: name, Alice, pack · 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, Alice, gardeners), 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 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 name	nmod:poss
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 answers	punct
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answers	nsubj
8	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asks	parataxis
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 politely	advmod
10	politely	politely	ADV	_	8 answers	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thinks	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 thinks	cc
13	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 answers	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 herself	case
15	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 thinks	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pack	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 pack	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pack	nsubj
19	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 pack	cop
20	only	only	ADV	_	22 pack	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 pack	det
22	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thinks	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 cards	case
24	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pack	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
26	after	after	ADV	_	3 asks	advmod
27	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 after	fixed
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the Queen	Queen's name		after property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
2	answer speech: assert	present	Alice			politely property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	present	Alice not said here		Alice		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	gardeners = gardener	a pack		of cards	tree rules
5	name		Queen				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:5.

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 ×1, 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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