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title: “Come, _that’s_ a good thing!” she said to herself, for she had felt… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Come, _that’s_ a good thing!” she said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered. Who acts: Alice, Queen. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 63

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“Come, \_that’s\_ a good thing!” she said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.

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**Who acts:** Alice, Queen · **What happens:** come, say, feel, order · **To what, where:** \_, Alice, number, executions · **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, Queen), 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:pg11:10:63
# text = “Come, _that’s_ a good thing!” she said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the number of executions the Queen had ordered.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	executions	execution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | \_ |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Alice |  | Alice |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **feel** | past · perfect | Alice |  |  | the number of executions |  | unhappy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **order** | past · perfect | the Queen | executions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent execution=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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