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

Everyone plays at once, quarrelling and fighting over the hedgehogs, and the Queen stamps about shouting «Off with his head!» or «Off with her head!» about once a minute.

Who acts: Everyone, Queen stamps · What happens: play, quarrelling, fight, shout

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 (Everyone, Queen stamps), 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	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 plays	nsubj
2	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 plays	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 quarrelling	punct
6	quarrelling	quarrelling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 plays	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fighting	cc
8	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 quarrelling	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 hedgehogs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hedgehogs	det
11	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fighting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shouting	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shouting	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stamps	det
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 stamps	compound
16	stamps	stamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shouting	nsubj
17	about	about	SCONJ	_	18 shouting	mark
18	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 plays	conj
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 Off	punct
20	Off	off	ADP	_	23 head	case
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shouting	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 shouting	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 shouting	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 head	cc
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 Off	punct
28	Off	off	ADP	_	31 head	case
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 head	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shouting	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 plays	punct
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 minute	punct
34	about	about	ADV	_	35 once	advmod
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	37 minute	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 minute	det
37	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plays	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 plays	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	Everyone	minute		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	quarrelling	gerund	Everyone not said here			tree rules
3	fight	gerund	Everyone not said here		over the hedgehogs	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over hedgehog=Theme
4	shout speech: express	gerund	the Queen stamps		off hedgehog's head; off Alice's head	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:2.

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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