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title: “When _I’m_ a Duchess,” she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “When _I’m_ a Duchess,” she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen _at all_. Who acts: Duchess. 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
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 3

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“When \_I’m\_ a Duchess,” she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen \_at all\_.

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**Who acts:** Duchess · **What happens:** be, \_, say, not have · **To what, where:** Duchess, hopeful tone, pepper, kitchen · **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), 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:pg11:10:3
# text = “When _I’m_ a Duchess,” she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen _at all_.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
23	though	though	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	pepper	pepper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Duchess |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **\_** *in a quote* | gerund | Duchess *not said here* | a Duchess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Duchess |  | Duchess | a hopeful tone |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | future | Duchess | any pepper |  | my kitchen |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pepper=Patient |

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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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