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title: First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like t… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did. Who acts: ten soldiers, soldiers. A se
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 19

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First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did.

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**Who acts:** ten soldiers, soldiers · **What happens:** come, carry, shape, ornament, walk, do · **To what, where:** ten soldiers, clubs, these, two

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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 (ten soldiers, soldiers), 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:pg11:9:19
# text = First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	oblong	oblong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	next	next	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
38	all	all	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	over	over	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
45	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
52	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | ten soldiers |  |  |  | first *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location soldier=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | ten soldiers *not said here* | clubs |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme |
| 3 | **shape** | past · passive |  | these |  |  |  | like the three gardeners; with gardeners's hands at the corners and the ten courtiers and feet; all *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **ornament** | past · passive |  | these |  |  |  | with diamonds; over *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with diamond=Theme |
| 5 | **walk** | past |  | two |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme two=Trajectory |
| 6 | **do** | past | the soldiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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