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title: “Right, as usual,” said the Duchess: “what a clear way you have of p… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Right, as usual,” said the Duchess: “what a clear way you have of putting things!” Who acts: Duchess, you, clear way. 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 28

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“Right, as usual,” said the Duchess: “what a clear way you have of putting things!”

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**Who acts:** Duchess, you, clear way · **What happens:** say, have, put · **To what, where:** clear way, things · **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 (Duchess, you, clear way), 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:pg11:10:28
# text = “Right, as usual,” said the Duchess: “what a clear way you have of putting things!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	16	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	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 | the Duchess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | what clear way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 3 | **put** *in a quote* | gerund | what clear way *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal |

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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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