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title: The Cat’s head began fading away the moment he was gone, and, by the… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cat’s head began fading away the moment he was gone, and, by the time he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely disappeared; so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and down looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the game. Who acts: head, executioner, arrow, King
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 115

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The Cat’s head began fading away the moment he was gone, and, by the time he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely disappeared; so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and down looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the game.

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**Who acts:** head, executioner, arrow, King, rest · **What happens:** begin, fade away, be, come back, disappear, run · **To what, where:** moment

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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 (head, executioner, arrow, King), 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:pg11:9:115
# text = The Cat’s head began fading away the moment he was gone, and, by the time he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely disappeared; so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and down looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the game.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fading	fade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	executioner	executioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
39	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	up	up	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	down	down	ADV	RB	_	40	conj	_	_
43	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
47	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
54	back	back	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the Cat's head |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fade away** | gerund | the Cat's head *not said here* |  |  |  | moment | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | executioner | the moment *not said here* |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come back** | past · perfect | executioner |  |  |  | time | with the Duchess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **disappear** | past · perfect | arrow |  |  |  |  | entirely *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **run** | past | the King and the executioner |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **look** | gerund | the King and the executioner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for arrow | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
| 8 | **go back** | past | the rest of the party |  |  |  |  | to the game *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to game=Result |

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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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