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title: “Thank you, it’s a very interesting dance to watch,” said Alice, fee… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Thank you, it’s a very interesting dance to watch,” said Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last: “and I do so like that curious song about the whiting!” Who acts: shore, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, with its d
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 47

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“Thank you, it’s a very interesting dance to watch,” said Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last: “and I do so like that curious song about the whiting!”

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**Who acts:** shore, Alice · **What happens:** thank, be, watch, say, feel, do · **To what, where:** you, interesting dance, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shore, Alice), 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:pg11:11:47
# text = “Thank you, it’s a very interesting dance to watch,” said Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last: “and I do so like that curious song about the whiting!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	ccomp	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
35	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	about	about	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	whiting	whiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | shore | a interesting dance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **feel** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  | last |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location |
| 6 | **is** | past | shore |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | like that curious song about the whiting | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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