--- title: «My name is Alice, so please your Majesty» is the old polite way to… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: «My name is Alice, so please your Majesty» is the old polite way to speak to a queen; to herself she says «they're only a pack of cards, after all. Who acts: name, Alice, clubs, My. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Alice, clubs, My), 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:19 # text = «My name is Alice, so please your Majesty» is the old polite way to speak to a queen; to herself she says «they're only a pack of cards, after all. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 please please INTJ UH _ 10 discourse _ _ 9 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obl _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 only only ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | My name | Alice | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Alice | the old polite way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | to a queen | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to queen=Co-Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | Alice | | after all | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | clubs *= club* | a pack | | | | of cards | tree rules | | 6 | **name** *in a quote* | | My | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:19`. **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 ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, par…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/18/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, par…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/)