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title: “How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!” th… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!” thought Alice; “I might as well be at school at once.” Who acts: creatures, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 99

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“How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!” thought Alice; “I might as well be at school at once.”

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**Who acts:** creatures, Alice · **What happens:** order, make, repeat, think, be · **To what, where:** one, lessons, school · **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 (creatures, 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:pg11:11:99
# text = “How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!” thought Alice; “I might as well be at school at once.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	26	cc	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	fixed	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** *in a quote* | infinitive | the creatures | one |  |  |  | about *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | the creatures *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **repeat** *in a quote* | infinitive | the creatures *not said here* | lessons |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | might | Alice |  |  | school |  | once *property* | tree rules |

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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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