--- title: The executioner says you can't cut off a head without a body to cut… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: The executioner says you can't cut off a head without a body to cut it from; the King says anything with a head can be beheaded; the Queen threatens to execute everyone. Who acts: executioner, you, King, 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 (executioner, you, King, 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:9 # text = The executioner says you can't cut off a head without a body to cut it from; the King says anything with a head can be beheaded; the Queen threatens to execute everyone. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 executioner executioner NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 without without ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 15 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obj 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 beheaded behead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl:relcl 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 threatens threaten VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 execute execute VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the executioner | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **cut off** | can | you | a head | | | | without a body | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | | 3 | **cut** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | head | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **behead** | can · passive | | anything | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **threaten** | present | the Queen | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **execute** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | everyone | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient | 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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