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title: “Yes, but _I_ grow at a reasonable pace,” said the Dormouse: “not in… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, but _I_ grow at a reasonable pace,” said the Dormouse: “not in that ridiculous fashion.” Who acts: Dormouse. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 54

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“Yes, but \_I\_ grow at a reasonable pace,” said the Dormouse: “not in that ridiculous fashion.”

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**Who acts:** Dormouse · **What happens:** grow, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dormouse), 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:pg11:12:54
# text = “Yes, but _I_ grow at a reasonable pace,” said the Dormouse: “not in that ridiculous fashion.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** *in a quote* | present | the Dormouse *= dormouse* |  |  |  |  | at a reasonable pace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Dormouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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