--- title: “Now, I give you fair warning,” shouted the Queen, stamping on the g… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “Now, I give you fair warning,” shouted the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke; “either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time! Who acts: Queen, Duchess. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/49/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/) / 49 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 49 “Now, I give you fair warning,” shouted the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke; “either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time! **Who acts:** Queen, Duchess · **What happens:** give off, shout, stamp, speak · **To what, where:** fair warning, you, ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Duchess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11:10:49 # text = “Now, I give you fair warning,” shouted the Queen, stamping on the ground as she spoke; “either you or your head must be off, and that in about half no time! 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 11 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 stamping stamp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 either either CCONJ CC _ 25 cc:preconj _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 nsubj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 39 det:predet _ _ 38 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 39 det _ _ 39 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give off** *in a quote* | present | the Queen *= queen* | fair warning | you | | now; time | | tree rules | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the Queen | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stamp** | gerund | the Queen *not said here* | | | the ground | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Duchess | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **Text:** «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/50/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX. 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