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title: “_Un_important, of course, I meant,” the King hastily said, and went… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “_Un_important, of course, I meant,” the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, Who acts: King. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 14

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“\_Un\_important, of course, I meant,” the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone,

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** mean, say, go on · **To what, where:** Un, undertone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg11:13:14
# text = “_Un_important, of course, I meant,” the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone,
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Un	Un	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
8	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	on	on	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	undertone	undertone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | past | the King *= king* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go on** | past |  |  | Un | a undertone |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in undertone=Location |

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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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