Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 54

All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling with the other players, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!”

Who acts: guests, Queen · What happens: play, not leave off, quarrell, shout off

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, Queen), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 playing	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 playing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 playing	aux
6	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Queen	det
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 left	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 left	advmod
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 playing	ccomp
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 left	compound:prt
12	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 left	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 players	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 players	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 players	amod
16	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 quarrelling	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shouting	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shouting	cc
19	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Part	6 playing	parataxis
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Off	punct
21	Off	off	ADP	_	19 shouting	compound:prt
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shouting	obl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 head	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 head	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 head	cc
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 Off	punct
29	Off	off	ADV	_	32 head	advmod
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 head	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 head	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 head	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	guests = guest	time		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not leave off	past	the Queen			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	quarrell	gerund	the Queen not said here		with the other players	tree rules
4	shout off speech: express	gerund			with delay's head or Queen's head	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

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