--- title: The croquet-ground is «all ridges and furrows» (bumps and dips); the… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: The croquet-ground is «all ridges and furrows» (bumps and dips); the balls are live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the arches are soldiers bent double. Who acts: croquet ground, balls, mallets, arches. 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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 (croquet ground, balls, mallets, arches), 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:31 # text = The croquet-ground is «all ridges and furrows» (bumps and dips); the balls are live hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the arches are soldiers bent double. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 croquet croquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 ridges ridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 furrows furrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 bumps bump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 dips dip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 hedgehogs hedgehog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 mallets mallet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 flamingoes flamingoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=26:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 arches arch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 34 bent bent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 acl _ _ 35 double double ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the croquet ground | all ridges and furrows | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the balls | live hedgehogs | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | present | the mallets | flamingoes | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme flamingoe=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | the arches | soldiers | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bent** | participle | | soldiers *not said here* | | | | double *property* | 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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