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title: “Never!” said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizar… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Never!” said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke. Who acts: Queen. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 74

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“Never!” said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** not say, throw, speak · **To what, where:** inkstand, Lizard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg11:13:74
# text = “Never!” said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	inkstand	inkstand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Lizard	Lizard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  | furiously *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | gerund | the Queen *not said here* | a inkstand |  | the Lizard |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent inkstand=Theme at lizard=Destination |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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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