--- title: “We quarrelled last March—just before _he_ went mad, you know—” (poi… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “We quarrelled last March—just before _he_ went mad, you know—” (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) “—it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing Who acts: We, Hatter, you, spoon. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/) / 71 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 71 “We quarrelled last March—just before \_he\_ went mad, you know—” (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) “—it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing **Who acts:** We, Hatter, you, spoon, great concert · **What happens:** quarrell, go, know, point, be, give · **To what, where:** great concert · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Hatter, you, spoon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11:8:71 # text = “We quarrelled last March—just before _he_ went mad, you know—” (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) “—it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 quarrelled quarrell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 6 — - PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 just just ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 12 punct _ _ 12 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 — - PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 pointing point VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 spoon spoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 31 “ " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 — - PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 concert concert NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 39 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Hearts Heart PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **quarrell** *in a quote* | past | We | | | | march | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | Hatter | | | | | mad *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **point** | gerund | Hatter *not said here* | | | | | with Hatter's tea spoon; at the March Hare | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | spoon | | | the great concert | | | tree rules | | 6 | **give** *in a quote* | participle | | the great concert *not said here* | | | | by the Queen of Hearts | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the great concert | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the great concert *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/72/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/)