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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 3

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The Queen!» — the gardeners throw themselves flat on their faces, and a grand procession marches in: ten soldiers with clubs, ten courtiers with diamonds, ten royal children with hearts, the guests (the White Rabbit among them), the Knave of Hearts carrying the crown on a cushion, and last of all the King and Queen of Hearts.

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**Who acts:** Queen, grand procession, Knave · **What happens:** throw, march in, carry · **To what, where:** gardeners, faces, crown, 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 (Queen, grand procession, Knave), 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:3
# text = The Queen!» — the gardeners throw themselves flat on their faces, and a grand procession marches in: ten soldiers with clubs, ten courtiers with diamonds, ten royal children with hearts, the guests (the White Rabbit among them), the Knave of Hearts carrying the crown on a cushion, and last of all 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
17	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod
18	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	marches	march	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
22	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obl
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
33	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
40	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Rabbit	rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=39:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
44	among	among	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	_
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	43	punct	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Knave	Knave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Hearts	Heart	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
52	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	acl	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	conj	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
62	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	68	det:predet	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=68:det
64	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	conj	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	Hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	_
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **throw** *in a quote* | present | the Queen | gardeners *= gardener* |  | gardeners's faces |  | flat *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on face=Destination |
| 2 | **march in** *in a quote* | present | a grand procession |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** *in a quote* | gerund | the Knave of Hearts *not said here* | the crown |  | a cushion |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=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:3`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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