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title: Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, wh… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution. W
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 55

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Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.

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**Who acts:** Queen, soldiers, players · **What happens:** sentence, take, have, leave off, be, do · **To what, where:** Those, custody, arches, this, execution

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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 (Queen, soldiers, players), 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:pg11:10:55
# text = Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody and under sentence of execution.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sentenced	sentence	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	custody	custody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
15	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	fixed	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	arches	arch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	34	det:predet	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	expl	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	arches	arch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
41	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	except	except	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
58	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	cop	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	custody	custody	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
62	under	under	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	execution	execution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sentence** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive | the soldiers | Those |  | custody |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into custody=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | past | the soldiers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave off** | to-infinitive | the soldiers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | gerund |  | arches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | the soldiers *not said here* | this |  |  | so the end of half hour or no arches |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 7 | **is a** | past | the soldiers *not said here* | no arches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **leave** | participle |  | no arches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | past | all players |  |  | custody and sentence of execution |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **sentence** |  |  | execution |  |  |  |  | nom sentence «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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