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description: This of course, Alice could _not_ stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it away. Who acts: course, Alice, opportunity. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, with its dependen
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 20

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This of course, Alice could \_not\_ stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it away.

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**Who acts:** course, Alice, opportunity · **What happens:** not stand, go, get, find, take away · **To what, where:** court, opportunity

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course, Alice, opportunity), 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:pg11:12:20
# text = This of course, Alice could _not_ stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and very soon found an opportunity of taking it away.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
10	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
15	round	round	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** | could | this course |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | Alice |  |  | the court |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round court=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **get** | past | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind course | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **find** | past | Alice *not said here* | a opportunity |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic |
| 5 | **take away** | gerund | a opportunity *not said here* | opportunity |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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