--- title: Two began in a low voice, “Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Two began in a low voice, “Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a _red_ rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. Who acts: Two, you, we, Queen. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/15/) [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 VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/) / 15 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 15 Two began in a low voice, “Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a \_red\_ rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. **Who acts:** Two, you, we, Queen · **What happens:** begin, be, put in, have, cut off, know · **To what, where:** low voice, red rose tree, white one, heads · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Two, you, we, 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:pg11:9:15 # text = Two began in a low voice, “Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a _red_ rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nsubj _ _ 2 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Miss Miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 obj _ _ 20 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 21 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 23 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux _ _ 24 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 26 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 27 punct _ _ 29 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 44 if if SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 advcl _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 out out ADP RP _ 49 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 53 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 54 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 55 all all ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 56 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 57 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 58 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 obj _ _ 59 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 58 acl _ _ 60 off off ADP RP _ 59 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 62 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 63 nsubj _ _ 63 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | Two | | | a low voice | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | here | | see *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · perfect | you *not said here* | a red rose tree | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **put in** *in a quote* | past | we | a white one | | | | by mistake | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme by mistake=Destination | | 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | the Queen | | | | | find *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | should | we | our heads | | | | all *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 7 | **cut off** *in a quote* | participle | | our heads *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/16/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/)