--- title: “Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse,” said the Hatter, “when… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse,” said the Hatter, “when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, ‘He’s murdering the time! Who acts: Hatter, Queen. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/80/) [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/) / 80 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 80 “Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse,” said the Hatter, “when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, ‘He’s murdering the time! **Who acts:** Hatter, Queen · **What happens:** have, finish, say, jump up, bawl out, murder · **To what, where:** first verse · **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 (Hatter, Queen), 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:pg11:8:80 # text = “Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse,” said the Hatter, “when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, ‘He’s murdering the time! 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’d have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 finished finish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 verse verse NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Hatter Hatter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 bawled bawl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 30 murdering murder VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 xcomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the Hatter *= hatter* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **finish** *in a quote* | past | | the first verse | | | | hardly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality verse=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Hatter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **jump up** *in a quote* | past | the Queen | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **bawl out** *speech: other* *in a quote* | participle | the Queen *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **murder** *in a quote* | gerund | the Queen *not said here* | | | | time | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/81/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/)