Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 14

«The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while»; the Queen shouts «Off with his head!» about once a minute.

Who acts: players, Queen · What happens: play, wait, quarrel, shout · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body)» 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 (players, Queen), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 players	det
3	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 played	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 played	advmod
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 played	obl
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 waiting	mark
9	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 played	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 turns	case
11	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 waiting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 quarrelling	punct
13	quarrelling	quarrel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 played	advcl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 while	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 while	det
16	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quarrelling	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 shouts	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queen	det
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 shouts	nsubj
21	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 played	parataxis
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 shouts	punct
23	Off	off	ADV	_	21 shouts	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Off	obl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 shouts	punct
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 minute	punct
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 once	advmod
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 minute	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 minute	det
32	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shouts	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	play in a quote	past	the players		all property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	wait in a quote	gerund	the players not said here		for turns	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	quarrel in a quote	gerund	the players not said here	while		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shout speech: express	present	the Queen	minute	off property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.lesson:14.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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