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title: “’Tis so,” said the Duchess: “and the moral of that is—‘Oh, ’tis lov… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “’Tis so,” said the Duchess: “and the moral of that is—‘Oh, ’tis love, ’tis love, that makes the world go round!’” Who acts: Tis, moral, tis love, world. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 16

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“’Tis so,” said the Duchess: “and the moral of that is—‘Oh, ’tis love, ’tis love, that makes the world go round!’”

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**Who acts:** Tis, moral, tis love, world · **What happens:** say, be, make, go round · **To what, where:** tis love · **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 (Tis, moral, tis love, world), 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:pg11:10:16
# text = “’Tis so,” said the Duchess: “and the moral of that is—‘Oh, ’tis love, ’tis love, that makes the world go round!’”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	’	'	X	XX	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
35	round	round	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Tis |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the moral of that | tis love |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | tis love |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go round** *in a quote* | infinitive | the world |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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