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title: “The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!” Who acts: Queen, Knave. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 24

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“The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!”

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**Who acts:** Queen, Knave · **What happens:** make, steal, take · **To what, where:** tarts

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, Knave), 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:pg11:12:24
# text = “The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hearts	Heart	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	tarts	tart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Knave	Knave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Hearts	Heart	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	tarts	tart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | past | the Queen of Hearts | some tarts |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=Product |
| 2 | **steal** *in a quote* | past | Knave | that tarts |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tart=Theme |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | past | the Queen of Hearts *not said here* | tarts *= tart* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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