--- title: The Queen asks her name; Alice answers very politely, but thinks to… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: The Queen asks her name; Alice answers very politely, but thinks to herself, «they're only a pack of cards, after all». Who acts: Queen, Alice, gardeners. 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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, Alice, gardeners), 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:5 # text = The Queen asks her name; Alice answers very politely, but thinks to herself, «they're only a pack of cards, after all». # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 politely politely ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 26 after after ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 27 all all ADV RB PronType=Tot 26 fixed _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Queen | Queen's name | | | | after *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | politely *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice *not said here* | | Alice | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | gardeners *= gardener* | a pack | | | | of cards | tree rules | | 5 | **name** | | Queen | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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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