Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 74

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

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.

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 players	det
2	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 played	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 played	advmod
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 played	obl
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 waiting	mark
8	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 played	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 turns	case
10	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 waiting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 quarrelling	punct
12	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 waiting	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 while	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 while	det
15	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quarrelling	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fighting	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fighting	cc
18	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 quarrelling	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 hedgehogs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hedgehogs	det
21	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fighting	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 passion	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 passion	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 time	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 time	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 short	advmod
27	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 passion	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Queen	det
30	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 passion	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 passion	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 passion	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 passion	det
34	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 passion	amod
35	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 went	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 went	cc
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	conj
39	stamping	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 went	xcomp
40	about	about	ADV	_	39 stamping	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 shouting	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 shouting	cc
43	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 went	advcl
44	“	"	PUNCT	_	45 Off	punct
45	Off	off	ADP	_	43 shouting	compound:prt
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 head	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 head	nmod:poss
48	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 shouting	obl
49	!	!	PUNCT	_	48 head	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	48 head	punct
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	56 head	cc
52	“	"	PUNCT	_	56 head	punct
53	Off	off	ADV	_	56 head	advmod
54	with	with	ADP	_	56 head	case
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 head	nmod:poss
56	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 head	conj
57	!	!	PUNCT	_	56 head	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	56 head	punct
59	about	about	ADV	_	60 once	advmod
60	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	43 shouting	advmod
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 minute	case
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 minute	det
63	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 once	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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

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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