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title: Then again—‘_before she had this fit_—’ you never had fits, my dear,… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Then again—‘_before she had this fit_—’ you never had fits, my dear, I think?” he said to the Queen. Who acts: Alice, you, I, 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 73

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Then again—‘\_before she had this fit\_—’ you never had fits, my dear, I think?” he said to the Queen.

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**Who acts:** Alice, you, I, King · **What happens:** have, not have, think, say · **To what, where:** fit, fits, Queen · **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 (Alice, you, I, 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:pg11:13:73
# text = Then again—‘_before she had this fit_—’ you never had fits, my dear, I think?” he said to the Queen.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
17	fits	fit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Alice | this fit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **have** | past | you | fits |  |  | again |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | King |  | the Queen |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient |

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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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