--- title: «Your hair wants cutting» means your hair needs cutting; Alice tells… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: «Your hair wants cutting» means your hair needs cutting; Alice tells the Hatter not to make personal remarks, rude comments about someone's looks. Who acts: hair, Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time)» of the books cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/) / 16 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 16 «Your hair wants cutting» means your hair needs cutting; Alice tells the Hatter not to make personal remarks, rude comments about someone's looks. **Who acts:** hair, Alice · **What happens:** want, cut, mean, need, tell, not make · **To what, where:** Hatter, personal remarks · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time)» 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 (hair, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:16 # text = «Your hair wants cutting» means your hair needs cutting; Alice tells the Hatter not to make personal remarks, rude comments about someone's looks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 2 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:csubj 5 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 11 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Hatter hatter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl 20 personal personal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 remarks remark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 comments comment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Your hair | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **cut** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | Your hair *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **need** | present | your hair | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **cut** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | the Hatter | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent hatter=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **not** **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | personal remarks and rude comments about someone's looks | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remark=Product | 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:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:16`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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 VII, part…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/15/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/)