--- title: The Duchess answers "Talking of axes, chop off her head!", a pun on… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics description: The Duchess answers "Talking of axes, chop off her head!", a pun on axis and axes (chopping tools), and later "I never could abide figures!" ("abide" = stand, "figures" = numbers). Who acts: Duchess. 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("abide" = stand, "figures" = numbers). **Who acts:** Duchess · **What happens:** answer, chop, not abide, abide, stand · **To what, where:** Talking, figures · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» 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 (Duchess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:24 # text = The Duchess answers "Talking of axes, chop off her head!", a pun on axis and axes (chopping tools), and later "I never could abide figures!" ("abide" = stand, "figures" = numbers). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Talking talking NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 axes ax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 chop chop NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 off off ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 pun pun NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 axis axis NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 axes ax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 23 chopping chop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 amod _ _ 24 tools tool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 appos _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 abide abide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 34 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 ! ! PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 39 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 39 abide abide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ 41 = = SYM SYM _ 42 dep _ _ 42 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 parataxis _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ _ 45 figures figure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 45 punct _ _ 47 = = SYM SYM _ 48 dep _ _ 48 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ _ 49 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 48 punct _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: express* | present | the Duchess | Talking | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent talking=Eventuality | | 2 | **chop** | gerund | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **abide** *in a quote* | could | the Duchess *= duchess* | figures | | | | late *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **abide** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stand** | infinitive | | figures and numbers | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.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): R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/23/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/)