--- title: Alice complains: they don't play fairly, they quarrel, there seem to… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice complains: they don't play fairly, they quarrel, there seem to be no rules, and the next arch is «walking about at the other end of the ground». Who acts: Alice, players, rules, next arch. 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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 (Alice, players, rules, next arch), 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:17 # text = Alice complains: they don't play fairly, they quarrel, there seem to be no rules, and the next arch is «walking about at the other end of the ground». # 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 complains complain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 8 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 quarrel quarrel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:mark 16 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:xcomp 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 arch arch NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 26 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **complain** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **play** | present · do-support | players *= player* | | | | | fairly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **quarrel** | present | players *= player* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **seem** | present | players *= player* *not said here* | | | there | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **be** | to-infinitive | no rules | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **walk** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the next arch | | | | about the other end of the ground | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about end=Trajectory | 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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