Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 27

Alice says «It belongs to the Duchess: you'd better ask her about it»; the Duchess is in prison, and the executioner goes off «like an arrow» to fetch her.

Who acts: Alice, head, you, Duchess, executioner · What happens: say, belong, ask, be, go off, fetch · To what, where: Alice, prison · 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 (Alice, head, you, Duchess), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 belongs	punct
4	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 belongs	nsubj
5	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Duchess	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Duchess	det
8	Duchess	duchess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belongs	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 ask	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 ask	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 ask	aux
12	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 ask	advmod
13	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ask	iobj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ask	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 ask	punct
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 prison	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Duchess	det
20	Duchess	duchess	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 prison	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 prison	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 prison	case
23	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ask	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 goes	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 goes	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 executioner	det
27	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 goes	nsubj
28	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 prison	conj
29	off	off	PART	_	28 goes	compound:prt
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	33 arrow	punct
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 arrow	case
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 arrow	det
33	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 goes	obl
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	33 arrow	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 fetch	mark
36	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 goes	advcl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fetch	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Alice					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	belong in a quote	present	head				to the Duchess	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	would	you		Alice		about head; well property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is	present	the Duchess			prison		tree rules
5	go off	present	the executioner				like a arrow	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
6	fetch	to-infinitive	the executioner not said here	Alice				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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:27.

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 ×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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