--- title: The gardeners lie face down, and their backs have the same pattern a… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: The gardeners lie face down, and their backs have the same pattern as the rest of the pack, so the Queen can't tell who they are. Who acts: gardeners, backs, Queen. 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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 (gardeners, backs, Queen), 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:21 # text = The gardeners lie face down, and their backs have the same pattern as the rest of the pack, so the Queen can't tell who they are. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gardeners gardener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 face face VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 pattern pattern NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 26 ccomp _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie down** | present | the gardeners | | | | | down *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **face** | infinitive | the gardeners *not said here* | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | gardeners's backs | the same pattern | | | | as the rest of the pack | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient | | 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | the Queen | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | backs *= back* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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