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title: “It isn’t directed at all,” said the White Rabbit; “in fact, there’s… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “It isn’t directed at all,” said the White Rabbit; “in fact, there’s nothing written on the _outside_.” Who acts: White Rabbit. 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 34

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“It isn’t directed at all,” said the White Rabbit; “in fact, there’s nothing written on the \_outside\_.”

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**Who acts:** White Rabbit · **What happens:** not direct, say, write · **To what, where:** paper, all, \_ · **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 (White Rabbit), 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:pg11:13:34
# text = “It isn’t directed at all,” said the White Rabbit; “in fact, there’s nothing written on the _outside_.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	directed	direct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	_
22	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **direct** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | paper |  | all |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: subject=Theme at all=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the White Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **write** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | the \_ |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on \_=Destination |

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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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