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title: When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to find qui… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to find quite a large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute going on between the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were all talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent, and looked very uncomfortable. Who acts: Alice, 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 106

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When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to find quite a large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute going on between the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were all talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent, and looked very uncomfortable.

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**Who acts:** Alice, dispute, rest, Queen · **What happens:** get back, be, find, collect, go on, talk · **To what, where:** large crowd, executioner, Queen

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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 (Alice, dispute, rest, 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:pg11:9:106
# text = When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to find quite a large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute going on between the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were all talking at once, while all the rest were quite silent, and looked very uncomfortable.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Cat	Cat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	between	between	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	executioner	executioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	obl	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	all	all	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	parataxis	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
47	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
48	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	50	det:predet	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
52	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
57	very	very	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | to the Cheshire Cat *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cat=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | quite large crowd |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Topic |
| 4 | **collect** | participle |  | quite large crowd *not said here* |  |  |  | round fight | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **be** | past | a dispute |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **go on** | gerund | a dispute *not said here* |  |  | the executioner |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between executioner=Location |
| 7 | **talk** | past · progressive |  | the Queen |  |  |  | all *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | past | all rest |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **look** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  | uncomfortable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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