Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 18
«How do you like the Queen?» — «Not at all... she's so extremely—» — then, seeing the Queen behind her — «—likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishing the game.» The Queen smiles and passes on.
Who acts: you, head, Queen · What happens: not like, see, win, be, finish, smile · To what, where: Queen, game · 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 (you, head, 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 like | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 like | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Queen | det |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 like | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 12 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 Not | obl |
| 15 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 21 » | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 » | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 » | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 » | advmod |
| 19 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 21 » | advmod |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 extremely | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 » | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 like | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seeing | punct |
| 25 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 like | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Queen | det |
| 27 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 seeing | obj |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 30 — | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 — | nmod:poss |
| 30 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 seeing | punct |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 33 likely | punct |
| 32 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 likely | punct |
| 33 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 like | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 win | mark |
| 35 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 likely | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 worth | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 worth | mark |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 worth | nsubj |
| 39 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 worth | cop |
| 40 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 41 worth | advmod |
| 41 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 likely | parataxis |
| 42 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 43 finishing | mark |
| 43 | finishing | finish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 worth | advcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 game | det |
| 45 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 finishing | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 47 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 48 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Queen | det |
| 49 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 smiles | nsubj |
| 50 | smiles | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | parataxis |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 passes | cc |
| 52 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 smiles | conj |
| 53 | on | on | ADV | _ | 52 passes | compound:prt |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 50 smiles | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- wh-question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=ask
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | you | the Queen | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | you not said here | the Queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | win in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | head | hardly, worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | finish in a quote | gerund | head not said here | the game | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality game=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | smile | present | the Queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | pass on | present | the Queen not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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:18.
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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