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title: The Queen of Hearts shouts «Off with her head!» at everyone, but the… — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen of Hearts shouts «Off with her head!» at everyone, but the Gryphon tells Alice: «It's all her fancy, that: they never executes nobody, you know». Who acts: Queen, Gryphon, People, Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the l
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# Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 4

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The Queen of Hearts shouts «Off with her head!» at everyone, but the Gryphon tells Alice: «It's all her fancy, that: they never executes nobody, you know».

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**Who acts:** Queen, Gryphon, People, Alice · **What happens:** shout, tell, be, not execute, know · **To what, where:** head, everyone, Alice, fancy, nobody · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language 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, Gryphon, People, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:4
# text = The Queen of Hearts shouts «Off with her head!» at everyone, but the Gryphon tells Alice: «It's all her fancy, that: they never executes nobody, you know».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Hearts	Hearts	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Gryphon	gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
23	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	appos	_	_
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	executes	execute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
34	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	obj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
38	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | the Queen of Hearts | Queen's head |  | everyone |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Gryphon |  | Alice |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Gryphon | Alice's fancy |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **execute** *in a quote* | present | People | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:4`.

**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 ×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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