--- title: «The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelli… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: «The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while»; the Queen shouts «Off with his head!» about once a minute. Who acts: players, Queen. 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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 (players, Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.lesson:14 # text = «The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while»; the Queen shouts «Off with his head!» about once a minute. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 all all ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 obl _ _ 8 without without SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 quarrelling quarrel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj 16 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PRON:'':_ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 shouts shout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 23 Off off ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 29 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 32 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **play** *in a quote* | past | the players | | | | | all *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | gerund | the players *not said here* | | | | | for turns | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **quarrel** *in a quote* | gerund | the players *not said here* | | | | while | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | the Queen | | | | minute | off *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.lesson:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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