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title: The Queen’s argument was, that if something wasn’t done about it in… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen’s argument was, that if something wasn’t done about it in less than no time she’d have everybody executed, all round. Who acts: argument, Queen. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 110

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The Queen’s argument was, that if something wasn’t done about it in less than no time she’d have everybody executed, all round.

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**Who acts:** argument, Queen · **What happens:** not do, be, execute, argue · **To what, where:** something

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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 (argument, 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:pg11:9:110
# text = The Queen’s argument was, that if something wasn’t done about it in less than no time she’d have everybody executed, all round.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:outer	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	19	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’d	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	obj	_	_
24	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	round	round	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | something |  |  |  | about Nonsense | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | would · past | the Queen's argument |  |  |  | time | have *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **execute** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **argue** |  | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom argument «communication transitive»: poss=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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