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title: “Well!” thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shal… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well!” thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! Who acts: Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 12

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“Well!” thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** think, tumble down · **To what, where:** Alice, nothing, stairs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), 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:pg11:2:12
# text = “Well!” thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	14	det:predet	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice |  | Alice |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | shall | Alice | nothing |  |  | after such fall as this |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme |
| 3 | **tumble down** *in a quote* | gerund |  | stairs |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme |

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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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