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title: “—and just take his head off outside,” the Queen added to one of the… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “—and just take his head off outside,” the Queen added to one of the officers: but the Hatter was out of sight before the officer could get to the door. Who acts: Queen, Hatter, officer. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, with its dep
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 91

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“—and just take his head off outside,” the Queen added to one of the officers: but the Hatter was out of sight before the officer could get to the door.

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**Who acts:** Queen, Hatter, officer · **What happens:** take off, add, be, get · **To what, where:** head, one, sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Hatter, officer), 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:pg11:12:91
# text = “—and just take his head off outside,” the Queen added to one of the officers: but the Hatter was out of sight before the officer could get to the door.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
9	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
28	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Hatter's head |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | the Queen |  | one of the officers |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Hatter |  |  | sight |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | could | the officer | sight *not said here* |  |  |  | to the door | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=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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