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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 103

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The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree.

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**Who acts:** hedgehog, excellent opportunity, Alice, flamingo · **What happens:** engage, seem, croquet, be, see, try · **To what, where:** hedgehog, fight, excellent opportunity, Alice, one, only difficulty

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hedgehog, excellent opportunity, Alice, flamingo), 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:pg11:9:103
# text = The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	croqueting	croquet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
38	across	across	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	50	advmod	_	_
48	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	xcomp	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	advcl	_	_
61	up	up	ADP	RP	_	60	compound:prt	_	_
62	into	into	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** | past · passive |  | the hedgehog |  |  |  | in a fight with another hedgehog *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in fight=Goal |
| 2 | **seem** | past | another hedgehog | a excellent opportunity | Alice |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme opportunity=Attribute |
| 3 | **croquet** | gerund | a excellent opportunity *not said here* | one of hedgehogs |  |  |  | with the other | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past · passive |  | the only difficulty |  | the other side of the garden |  | go *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | could | Alice | flamingo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **try** | gerund | flamingo *not said here* |  |  | a helpless sort of way |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **fly up** | to-infinitive | flamingo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a tree *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result |
| 8 | **sort** |  |  | way |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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