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title: "Off with his head!"», which she says about the Cat «without even lo… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Off with his head!"», which she says about the Cat «without even looking round». Who acts: Queen. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body), sentence 22

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"Off with his head!"», which she says about the Cat «without even looking round».

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** say, look round · **To what, where:** Cat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (a head without a body)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:22
# text = "Off with his head!"», which she says about the Cat «without even looking round».
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound
16	«	«	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
20	round	round	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Queen | the Cat |  |  |  | about « | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic |
| 2 | **look round** | gerund | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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:22`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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