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title: (Which he certainly did _not_, being made entirely of cardboard.) — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: (Which he certainly did _not_, being made entirely of cardboard.) 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 68

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(Which he certainly did \_not\_, being made entirely of cardboard.)

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** do, make

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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:pg11:13:68
# text = (Which he certainly did _not_, being made entirely of cardboard.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	obj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | King |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | gerund · passive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of cardboard | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

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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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