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title: The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpill… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar CHAPTER VI. Who acts: Rabbit. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, The Millennium Fulcrum Edition 3.0, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Millennium Fulcrum Edition 3.0, sentence 5

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The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar CHAPTER VI.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** V. Advice

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, The Millennium Fulcrum Edition 3.0. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit), 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:pg11:1:5
# text = The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar CHAPTER VI.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	Sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Bill	Bill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	CHAPTER	CHAPTER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	V.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	CHAPTER	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	VI	VI	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | the Rabbit |  |  | a V. Advice from a Caterpillar CHAPTER |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in advice=Destination |

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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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