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title: The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrellin… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!” about once in a minute. Who acts: playe
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 74

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The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!” about once in a minute.

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**Who acts:** players, Queen · **What happens:** play, wait, quarrell, fight, be, go · **To what, where:** furious passion

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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 (players, 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:pg11:9:74
# text = The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!” about once in a minute.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
7	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	turns	turn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	stamping	stamp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	xcomp	_	_
40	about	about	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
44	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	Off	off	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	48	punct	_	_
51	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
52	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	56	punct	_	_
59	about	about	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	43	advmod	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | the players |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | the players *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for turns | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **quarrell** | gerund | the players *not said here* |  |  |  | while |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fight** | gerund | the players *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the hedgehogs | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | the Queen |  |  | a furious passion | time |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | past | the players *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **stamp** | gerund | the players *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **shout off** *speech: express* | gerund | the players *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with game's head or Queen's head; once *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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