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title: As they walk off, the King says quietly to the company «You are all… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics
description: As they walk off, the King says quietly to the company «You are all pardoned», and Alice is glad, because she had felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered. Who acts: soldiers, King, Alice, Queen. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 32

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As they walk off, the King says quietly to the company «You are all pardoned», and Alice is glad, because she had felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.

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**Who acts:** soldiers, King, Alice, Queen · **What happens:** walk off, say, pardon, be, feel, order · **To what, where:** company, executions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (soldiers, King, Alice, Queen), 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:32
# text = As they walk off, the King says quietly to the company «You are all pardoned», and Alice is glad, because she had felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	off	off	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
14	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:cop
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	pardoned	pardon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
29	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	executions	execution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **walk off** | present | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the King |  | the company |  |  | quietly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to company=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pardon** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the company *= company* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | past · perfect | Alice |  |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **order** | past · perfect | the Queen | executions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent execution=Theme |

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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:32`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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