Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 25
The King's argument: anything that has a head can be beheaded.
Who acts: King · What happens: have, behead, argue · To what, where: head, argument
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 (King), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 argument | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beheaded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 anything | punct |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 beheaded | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 anything | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 beheaded | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 beheaded | aux:pass |
| 13 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 beheaded | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||||
| 2 | behead | can · passive | the King's argument | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | argue | the King | 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:25.
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 ×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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