--- title: “Get to your places!” shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and p… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “Get to your places!” shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each other; however, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game began. Who acts: Queen, people, game. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/) / 71 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 71 “Get to your places!” shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each other; however, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game began. **Who acts:** Queen, people, game · **What happens:** get, shout, begin, run about, tumble up, settle down · **To what, where:** voice, directions, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, people, game), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11:9:71 # text = “Get to your places!” shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each other; however, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game began. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 8 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 thunder thunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 20 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 directions direction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 tumbling tumble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 conj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 against against ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 26 obl _ _ 30 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 however however ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | to your places *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the Queen | | | a voice of thunder | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **begin** | past | people | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **run about** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | all directions | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | | 5 | **tumble up** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | against each | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **settle down** | past · passive | | people | | | minute | however *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **begin** | past | the game | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/72/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. 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