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title: They’re dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder i… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: They’re dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there’s any one left alive!” Who acts: players, great wonder. 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 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 76

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They’re dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there’s any one left alive!”

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**Who acts:** players, great wonder · **What happens:** 're, be, leave · **To what, where:** one

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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, great wonder), 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:pg11:9:76
# text = They’re dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there’s any one left alive!”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’re	're	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	beheading	beheading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **'re** | past | players *= player* |  |  |  |  | fond *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | the great wonder |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  | any one *not said here* |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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