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title: Off with his head!», and ever since, Time won't help him. — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Off with his head!», and ever since, Time won't help him. Who acts: Time. 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 of every c
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 2

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Off with his head!», and ever since, Time won't help him.

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**Who acts:** Time · **What happens:** not help · **To what, where:** Hatter

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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: who acts (Time), 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:2
# text = Off with his head!», and ever since, Time won't help him.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
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	1	obl	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	since	since	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
13	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **not** **help** *in a quote* | future | Time |  | Hatter |  |  | since *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:2`.

**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): 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/).

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