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title: Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but on the whole… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but on the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage Queen: so she waited. Who acts: Alice, it. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, with
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 67

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Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but on the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage Queen: so she waited.

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**Who acts:** Alice, it · **What happens:** not like, think, be, stay, go, wait · **To what, where:** look · **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, it), 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:pg11:10:67
# text = Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but on the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go after that savage Queen: so she waited.
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
21	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	savage	savage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | Alice | the look of the creature |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | on the whole | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on whole=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | would | it |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with look | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with it=Location |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | after that savage |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wait** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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