--- title: Suddenly the Queen stands in front of them, frowning like a thunders… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: Suddenly the Queen stands in front of them, frowning like a thunderstorm: «either you or your head must be off». Who acts: Queen, you. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/) / 6 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 6 Suddenly the Queen stands in front of them, frowning like a thunderstorm: «either you or your head must be off». **Who acts:** Queen, you · **What happens:** stand, frown, be · **To what, where:** front · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Queen, you), 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:6 # text = Suddenly the Queen stands in front of them, frowning like a thunderstorm: «either you or your head must be off». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 frowning frown VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 thunderstorm thunderstorm NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 16 either either CCONJ CC _ 17 cc:preconj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 23 off off ADV RB _ 4 parataxis _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | the Queen | | | front of people | | suddenly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **frown** | gerund | the Queen *not said here* | | | | | like a thunderstorm | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | must | you | | | | | off *property* | tree rules | 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:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:6`. **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 ×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 IX, part…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/5/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/)