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title: “Consider your verdict,” he said to the jury, in a low, trembling vo… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Consider your verdict,” he said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice. 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 28

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“Consider your verdict,” he said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** consider, say, tremble · **To what, where:** verdict, jury, trembling voice · **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:pg11:13:28
# text = “Consider your verdict,” he said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	verdict	verdict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	jury	jury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your verdict |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent verdict=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King |  | the jury | a trembling voice |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jury=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tremble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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