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title: Told to get up, the gardeners keep bowing to everybody, and the Quee… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: Told to get up, the gardeners keep bowing to everybody, and the Queen screams «Leave off that! Who acts: gardeners, Queen. 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 with its d
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 25

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Told to get up, the gardeners keep bowing to everybody, and the Queen screams «Leave off that!

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**Who acts:** gardeners, Queen · **What happens:** tell, get up, keep, bow, scream, leave off · **To what, where:** that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (gardeners, 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:25
# text = Told to get up, the gardeners keep bowing to everybody, and the Queen screams «Leave off that!
# 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): no change
1	Told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	bowing	bow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	screams	scream	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	_
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | the gardeners *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the gardeners *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **keep** | present | the gardeners |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bow** | gerund | the gardeners *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to everybody | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to everybody=Pivot |
| 5 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **leave off** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

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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:25`.

**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): no change. **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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