--- title: When the Queen says she never had fits, he jokes «Then the words don… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: When the Queen says she never had fits, he jokes «Then the words don't fit you», and nobody laughs until he explains it was a pun. Who acts: Queen, King, words, nobody. 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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 (Queen, King, words, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:4 # text = When the Queen says she never had fits, he jokes «Then the words don't fit you», and nobody laughs until he explains it was a pun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 024-alice-alices-evidence-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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 fits fit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 jokes joke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 13 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 16 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 24 nsubj _ _ 24 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 until until SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 pun pun NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 ccomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 Queen | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **have** | past | Queen | fits | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient | | 3 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | King | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **fit** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the words | you | | | then | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 5 | **laugh** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | King | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | past | Knave | a pun | | | | | 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. 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