Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 4

The Queen of Hearts shouts «Off with her head!» at everyone, but the Gryphon tells Alice: «It's all her fancy, that: they never executes nobody, you know».

Who acts: Queen, Gryphon, People, Alice · What happens: shout, tell, be, not execute, know · To what, where: head, everyone, Alice, fancy, nobody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language 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, Gryphon, People, Alice), 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 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 shouts	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Hearts	case
4	Hearts	Hearts	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Queen	nmod
5	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 Off	punct
7	Off	off	ADV	_	10 head	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shouts	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 shouts	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 shouts	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 everyone	case
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 shouts	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tells	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 tells	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Gryphon	det
18	Gryphon	gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 tells	nsubj
19	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shouts	conj
20	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 tells	obj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 tells	punct
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 fancy	punct
23	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fancy	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 fancy	cop
25	all	all	ADV	_	27 fancy	advmod
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fancy	nmod:poss
27	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tells	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fancy	punct
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 fancy	appos
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 fancy	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 executes	nsubj
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 executes	advmod
33	executes	execute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 fancy	parataxis
34	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 executes	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
37	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 executes	parataxis
38	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 fancy	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shouts	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	the Queen of Hearts	Queen's head		everyone		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	present	the Gryphon		Alice			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	Gryphon	Alice's fancy			all property	tree rules
4	not execute in a quote	present	People	nobody				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient
5	know in a quote	present	Alice					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:4.

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 ×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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