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title: But the Hatter quarrelled with Time last March, at the Queen of Hear… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Hatter quarrelled with Time last March, at the Queen of Hearts' concert, while he was singing «Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! Who acts: Hatter. 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 primar
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 9

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But the Hatter quarrelled with Time last March, at the Queen of Hearts' concert, while he was singing «Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!

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**Who acts:** Hatter · **What happens:** quarrel, sing · **To what, where:** concert, Twinkle

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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 (Hatter), 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:9
# text = But the Hatter quarrelled with Time last March, at the Queen of Hearts' concert, while he was singing «Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	quarrelled	quarrel	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Time	Time	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Hearts	Heart	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod:poss
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	concert	concert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quarrel** | past | the Hatter | Hearts's Queen's concert |  |  | with Time; march |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with time=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Hatter | Twinkle and twinkle |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twinkle=Theme |

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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.

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**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: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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/).

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