--- title: The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen’s absence, and wer… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen’s absence, and were resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her, they hurried back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a moment’s delay would cost them their lives. Who acts: moment, guests, Queen, delay. A sentence of «Alice's Ad --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/53/) [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/) / 53 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 53 The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen’s absence, and were resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her, they hurried back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a moment’s delay would cost them their lives. **Who acts:** moment, guests, Queen, delay · **What happens:** take, rest, see, hurry back, remark, cost · **To what, where:** other guests, shade, Queen, game, guests 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 (moment, guests, Queen, delay), 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:pg11:10:53 # text = The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen’s absence, and were resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her, they hurried back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a moment’s delay would cost them their lives. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 advantage advantage NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 absence absence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 resting rest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 shade shade NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 however however ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 hurried hurry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 merely merely ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 remarking remark VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’s 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 delay delay NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 44 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 46 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past · perfect · passive | | the other guests | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme advantage=Destination | | 2 | **rest** | past · progressive | | | | the shade | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location | | 3 | **see** | past | the moment | Queen | | | | however *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 4 | **hurry back** | past | guests *= guest* | | | the game | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to game=Destination | | 5 | **remark** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Queen | | | | | merely *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **cost** | would | a moment's delay | guests *= guest* | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme they=Beneficiary life=Value | | 7 | **absent** | | the Queen | | | | | | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/54/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX. 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