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title: After half an hour all the players except the King, the Queen and Al… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics
description: After half an hour all the players except the King, the Queen and Alice are «in custody» (arrested); the soldiers who held them can no longer be arches. Who acts: players, soldiers. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 29

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After half an hour all the players except the King, the Queen and Alice are «in custody» (arrested); the soldiers who held them can no longer be arches.

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**Who acts:** players, soldiers · **What happens:** be, arrest, hold · **To what, where:** custody », soldiers, arches

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» 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 (players, soldiers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:29
# text = After half an hour all the players except the King, the Queen and Alice are «in custody» (arrested); the soldiers who held them can no longer be arches.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
8	except	except	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	«	«	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	custody	custody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
31	no	no	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	arches	arch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **is** | present | all players except the King and the Queen and Alice |  |  | custody » | hour | « *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrest** | participle |  | custody » *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | past | the soldiers | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | can | the soldiers | arches |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |

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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:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:29`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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