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title: My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit) An obstacl… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit) An obstacle that came between Him, and ourselves, and it. Who acts: trial, notion, obstacle. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 57

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My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit) An obstacle that came between Him, and ourselves, and it.

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**Who acts:** trial, notion, obstacle · **What happens:** have, be, come · **To what, where:** fit, obstacle, notion

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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 (trial, notion, obstacle), 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:pg11:13:57
# text = My notion was that you had been (Before she had this fit) An obstacle that came between Him, and ourselves, and it.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
15	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	obstacle	obstacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | trial | this fit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past · perfect | My notion | a obstacle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | a obstacle | notion |  |  |  | between Rabbit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between he=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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