Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 9

The executioner says you can't cut off a head without a body to cut it from; the King says anything with a head can be beheaded; the Queen threatens to execute everyone.

Who acts: executioner, you, King, Queen · What happens: say, not cut off, cut, behead, threaten, execute · To what, where: head, anything, everyone · 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 (executioner, you, King, Queen), 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	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 cut	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cut	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 cut	advmod
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 cut	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 head	det
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
11	without	without	ADP	_	13 body	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 body	det
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cut	mark
15	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cut	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cut	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	15 cut	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 King	det
20	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 says	nsubj
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
22	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 beheaded	nsubj:pass
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 head	det
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 anything	nmod
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 beheaded	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 beheaded	aux:pass
28	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 says	ccomp
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 threatens	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Queen	det
31	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 threatens	nsubj
32	threatens	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 execute	mark
34	execute	execute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 threatens	xcomp
35	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	34 execute	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the executioner			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not cut off	can	you	a head	without a body	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
3	cut	to-infinitive	you not said here	head		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	say speech: assert	present	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	behead	can · passive		anything		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	threaten	present	the Queen			tree rules
7	execute not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	everyone		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient

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:9.

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 ×2, 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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