--- title: The Queen orders «Off with their heads!», and the procession moves o… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: The Queen orders «Off with their heads!», and the procession moves on, with three of the soldiers staying behind to execute the gardeners; Alice says «You shan't be beheaded!» (shan't = shall not) and hides them in a large flower-pot. Who acts: Queen, procession, soldiers, Alice. 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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 (Queen, procession, soldiers, Alice), 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:27 # text = The Queen orders «Off with their heads!», and the procession moves on, with three of the soldiers staying behind to execute the gardeners; Alice says «You shan't be beheaded!» (shan't = shall not) and hides them in a large flower-pot. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 orders order VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 5 Off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 on on ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 staying stay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 behind behind ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 execute execute VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:xcomp 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 gardeners gardener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 33 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 sha shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 35 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 beheaded behead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 ccomp _ _ 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 40 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 41 punct _ _ 41 sha sha X FW _ 31 parataxis _ _ 42 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:advmod 43 = = PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=48:punct 44 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 parataxis _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 46 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 44 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 49 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 52 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 53 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ _ 54 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 53 punct _ _ 55 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **order off** | present | the Queen | | | | | with gardeners's heads | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **move on** | present | the procession | | | | | with three of the soldiers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stay** | gerund | the soldiers *not said here* | | | | | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **execute** | to-infinitive | the soldiers *not said here* | the gardeners | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **behead** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | You | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **hide** | present | Alice *not said here* | gardeners *= gardener* | | a large flower pot | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in pot=Location | 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:27`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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. 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