--- title: Everyone plays at once, quarrelling and fighting over the hedgehogs,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: Everyone plays at once, quarrelling and fighting over the hedgehogs, and the Queen stamps about shouting «Off with his head!» or «Off with her head!» about once a minute. Who acts: Everyone, Queen stamps. 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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 (Everyone, Queen stamps), 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:2 # text = Everyone plays at once, quarrelling and fighting over the hedgehogs, and the Queen stamps about shouting «Off with his head!» or «Off with her 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 quarrelling quarrelling VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 hedgehogs hedgehog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 stamps stamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 about about SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 18 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 Off off ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 28 Off off ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 32 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 34 about about ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 37 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 38 . . 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 | **play** | present | Everyone | | | | minute | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **quarrelling** | gerund | Everyone *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fight** | gerund | Everyone *not said here* | | | | | over the hedgehogs | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over hedgehog=Theme | | 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the Queen stamps | | | | | off hedgehog's head; off Alice's head | 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:2`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, par…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/16-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2/1/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, par…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/16-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/16-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2/)