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description: So you see, Miss, we’re doing our best, afore she comes, to—” At this moment Five, who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called out “The Queen! Who acts: you, we, Miss, moment. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, wi
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 16

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So you see, Miss, we’re doing our best, afore she comes, to—” At this moment Five, who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called out “The Queen!

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**Who acts:** you, we, Miss, moment · **What happens:** see, be, do, come, look, call out · **To what, where:** Miss, best, 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 (you, we, Miss, moment), 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:pg11:9:16
# text = So you see, Miss, we’re doing our best, afore she comes, to—” At this moment Five, who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called out “The Queen!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	afore	afore	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
20	At	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux	_	_
28	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
30	across	across	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | you | Miss |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer miss=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | we *not said here* | our best |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 4 | **come** | present | Miss |  |  |  | moment |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | past · perfect · progressive | this moment |  |  |  |  | across the garden; anxiously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across garden=Theme |
| 6 | **call out** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | participle | this moment *not said here* | the Queen |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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