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description: He sent them word I had not gone (We know it to be true): If she should push the matter on, What would become of you? Who acts: Rabbit, I, We, word. 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 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 54

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He sent them word I had not gone (We know it to be true): If she should push the matter on, What would become of you?

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, I, We, word, trial · **What happens:** send, not go, know, be, push on, become · **To what, where:** verses, word, matter · **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 (Rabbit, I, We, word), 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:pg11:13:54
# text = He sent them word I had not gone (We know it to be true): If she should push the matter on, What would become of you?
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Rabbit | verses *= verse* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination word=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | I | word *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | present | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | word |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **push on** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | trial | the matter |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Theme |
| 6 | **become** | would |  |  |  |  |  | of you | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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