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title: The procession: ten soldiers carrying clubs, ten courtiers ornamente… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: The procession: ten soldiers carrying clubs, ten courtiers ornamented with diamonds, ten royal children ornamented with hearts, «jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples», the guests, the Knave of Hearts with the King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion, and last the King and Queen of Hearts. 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 17

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The procession: ten soldiers carrying clubs, ten courtiers ornamented with diamonds, ten royal children ornamented with hearts, «jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples», the guests, the Knave of Hearts with the King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion, and last the King and Queen of Hearts.

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**Who acts:** ten soldiers, King · **What happens:** carry, ornament, jump, crown · **To what, where:** clubs, ten courtiers, ten royal children, hand, velvet cushion

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red)» 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 (ten soldiers, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:17
# text = The procession: ten soldiers carrying clubs, ten courtiers ornamented with diamonds, ten royal children ornamented with hearts, «jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples», the guests, the Knave of Hearts with the King's crown on a crimson velvet cushion, and last the King and Queen of Hearts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
18	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
24	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	along	along	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	couples	couple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Knave	Knave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Hearts	Heart	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	crimson	crimson	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	Hearts	Heart	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=55:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | gerund | ten soldiers and ten courtiers and ten royal children and the guests *not said here* | clubs |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme |
| 2 | **ornament** | participle |  | ten courtiers *not said here* |  |  |  | with diamonds | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=Theme |
| 3 | **ornament** | participle |  | ten royal children *not said here* |  |  |  | with hearts | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with heart=Theme |
| 4 | **jump** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  | hand |  | along hand; in couples; merrily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along hand=Trajectory |
| 5 | **crown** |  | the King |  |  | a velvet cushion |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:17`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-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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