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title: Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, “Ha… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, “Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?” Who acts: Queen, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 56

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Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, “Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?”

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**Who acts:** Queen, Alice · **What happens:** leave off, say, see · **To what, where:** breath, Alice, Mock Turtle · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Alice), 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:pg11:10:56
# text = Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, “Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Mock	Mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave off** | past | the Queen |  |  | breath | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out breath=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Alice |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to alice=Recipient |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Alice | the Mock Turtle |  |  | yet |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turtle=Stimulus |

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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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