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description: At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in his note-book, cackled out “Silence!” and read out from his book, “Rule Forty-two. 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 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 18

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At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in his note-book, cackled out “Silence!” and read out from his book, “Rule Forty-two.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** write, cackle out, read out · **To what, where:** note book, Silence, book

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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:pg11:13:18
# text = At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in his note-book, cackled out “Silence!” and read out from his book, “Rule Forty-two.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	cackled	cackle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
36	Forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past · perfect · progressive | the King |  |  | King's note book | time | busily *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in book=Destination |
| 2 | **cackle out** | participle | the King | Silence |  |  | moment |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read out** | infinitive | the King *not said here* |  |  | King's book |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from book=Source |

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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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