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title: “_I’ve_ been to a day-school, too,” said Alice; “you needn’t be so p… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “_I’ve_ been to a day-school, too,” said Alice; “you needn’t be so proud as all that.” Who acts: Alice, you. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 102

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“\_I’ve\_ been to a day-school, too,” said Alice; “you needn’t be so proud as all that.”

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**Who acts:** Alice, you · **What happens:** have, be, say, not be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Alice, you), 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:pg11:10:102
# text = “_I’ve_ been to a day-school, too,” said Alice; “you needn’t be so proud as all that.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’ve	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to a day school | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | as that; proud *property* | tree rules |

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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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