Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 24

The executioner's argument: you can't cut off a head unless there is a body to cut it off from.

Who acts: you, body, executioner · What happens: not cut off, be, cut off, argue · To what, where: head

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, body, executioner), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 executioner	det
2	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 argument	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 executioner	case
4	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 argument	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 cut	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 cut	advmod
9	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 argument	parataxis
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 head	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obj
13	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	15 is	mark
14	there	there	PRON	_	15 is	expl
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 body	det
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 is	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cut	mark
19	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 body	acl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cut	obj
21	off	off	ADP	_	19 cut	compound:prt
22	from	from	ADP	_	19 cut	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 argument	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not cut off	can	you	a head		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
2	be a condition, not said to happen	present	a body		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cut off	to-infinitive	a body not said here	head		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality
4	argue		the executioner			nom argument «communication transitive»: poss=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:24.

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): no change. 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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