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title: All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!” Who acts: guests, Queen. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, with its dependency t
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 54

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All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!”

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**Who acts:** guests, Queen · **What happens:** play, not leave off, quarrell, shout off

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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 (guests, Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg11:10:54
# text = All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!”
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · progressive | guests *= guest* |  |  |  | time |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **leave off** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **quarrell** | gerund | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the other players | tree rules |
| 4 | **shout off** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with delay's head or Queen's head | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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.

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