Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 21
«The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small.
Who acts: Queen, one way · What happens: have, settle · To what, where: one way, difficulties
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 (Queen, one way), 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 | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 way | nummod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 settling | mark |
| 9 | settling | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 way | acl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 difficulties | det |
| 11 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 settling | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 great | punct |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 difficulties | amod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 small | cc |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 great | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | the Queen | one way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 2 | settle in a quote | gerund | one way not said here | all difficulties | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme difficulty=Location |
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:21.
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): 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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