Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 6
When the Queen screams «Off with her head!», Alice says «Nonsense!» loudly, and the Queen goes quiet.
Who acts: Queen, Alice · What happens: scream, say, go · 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), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 screams | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 screams | nsubj |
| 4 | screams | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | advcl |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 Off | punct |
| 6 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 4 screams | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screams | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 screams | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 screams | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 says | nsubj |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nonsense | punct |
| 16 | Nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 says | ccomp |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nonsense | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nonsense | punct |
| 19 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 14 says | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 goes | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 goes | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Queen | det |
| 23 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 goes | nsubj |
| 24 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | conj |
| 25 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 goes | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | present | the Queen | with Queen's head; off property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Alice | loudly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | present | the Queen | quiet property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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 ×2, 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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