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title: And then, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, “What _have_ you be… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: And then, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, “What _have_ you been doing here?” 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 every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 43

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And then, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, “What \_have\_ you been doing here?”

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** turn, go on, do · **To what, where:** rose tree · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg11:9:43
# text = And then, turning to the rose-tree, she went on, “What _have_ you been doing here?”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
17	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux	_	_
22	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  | the rose tree | then |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to tree=Trajectory |
| 2 | **go on** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive |  |  |  | here |  |  | 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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