--- title: Off with his head!»; to murder the time also means to sing it badly… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: Off with his head!»; to murder the time also means to sing it badly out of rhythm. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/15/) [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/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/) / 15 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 15 Off with his head!»; to murder the time also means to sing it badly out of rhythm. **What happens:** murder, mean, sing · **To what, where:** head, rhythm · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:15 # text = Off with his head!»; to murder the time also means to sing it badly out of rhythm. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.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 1 Off off ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 murder murder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 also also ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 18 out out ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 rhythm rhythm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **murder** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | time | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | head | | rhythm | | badly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | 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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:15`. **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. **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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/14/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/)