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title: The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed “Off with her head! Who acts: 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 pragmatics of ever
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 34

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The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed “Off with her head!

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** turn, glare, scream · **To what, where:** crimson

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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 (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:pg11:9:34
# text = The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed “Off with her head!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	glaring	glare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	screamed	scream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the Queen | crimson |  |  |  | with fury | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crimson=Theme |
| 2 | **glare** | gerund | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  | moment | at Queen | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location |
| 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | participle | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Queen's head; off *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with head=Theme |

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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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