Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 17
Alice complains: they don't play fairly, they quarrel, there seem to be no rules, and the next arch is «walking about at the other end of the ground».
Who acts: Alice, players, rules, next arch · What happens: complain, not play, quarrel, seem, be, walk · 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 (Alice, players, rules, next arch), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 complains | nsubj |
| 2 | complains | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 play | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 play | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 play | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 play | advmod |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 complains | ccomp |
| 8 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 7 play | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 quarrel | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 quarrel | nsubj |
| 11 | quarrel | quarrel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 play | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seem | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 seem | expl |
| 14 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 play | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 be | mark |
| 16 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seem | xcomp |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 rules | det |
| 18 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 be | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 walking | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 walking | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 arch | det |
| 22 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 arch | amod |
| 23 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 walking | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 walking | aux |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 walking | punct |
| 26 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 play | conj |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 end | case |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 end | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 end | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 end | amod |
| 31 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 walking | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 ground | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ground | det |
| 34 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 end | nmod |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 walking | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 complains | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other | present | Alice | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not play | present · do-support | players = player | fairly property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | quarrel | present | players = player | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | seem | present | players = player not said here | there | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | be | to-infinitive | no rules | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | walk in a quote | present · progressive | the next arch | about the other end of the ground | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about end=Trajectory |
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:17.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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