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title: “Off with their heads!” and the procession moved on, three of the so… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Off with their heads!” and the procession moved on, three of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners, who ran to Alice for protection. Who acts: heads, soldiers, unfortunate gardeners. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Qu
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 46

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“Off with their heads!” and the procession moved on, three of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners, who ran to Alice for protection.

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**Who acts:** heads, soldiers, unfortunate gardeners · **What happens:** move on, remain, execute, run · **To what, where:** three, unfortunate gardeners, Alice

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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 (heads, soldiers, unfortunate gardeners), 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:pg11:9:46
# text = “Off with their heads!” and the procession moved on, three of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners, who ran to Alice for protection.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	execute	execute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move on** | past | roses's heads and the procession | three of the soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | gerund | the soldiers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **execute** | to-infinitive | the soldiers *not said here* | the unfortunate gardeners |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Patient |
| 4 | **run** | past | the unfortunate gardeners |  | Alice |  |  | for protection | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to alice=Result |

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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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