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title: The Antipathies, I think—” (she was rather glad there _was_ no one l… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Antipathies, I think—” (she was rather glad there _was_ no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word) “—but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Who acts: Antipathies, Alice, Longitude, I. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 25

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The Antipathies, I think—” (she was rather glad there \_was\_ no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word) “—but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.

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**Who acts:** Antipathies, Alice, Longitude, I, name, you · **What happens:** think, be, not sound, have, ask, know · **To what, where:** one listening, right word, Antipathies, country · **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 (Antipathies, Alice, Longitude, I), 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:pg11:2:25
# text = The Antipathies, I think—” (she was rather glad there _was_ no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word) “—but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Antipathies	antipathy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	csubj	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	listening	listening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
35	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	iobj	_	_
44	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	42	ccomp	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	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* | present | the Antipathies |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Alice |  |  | there |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | no one listening and this time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **sound** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Longitude |  |  | all right word |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location |
| 5 | **have** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | Antipathies *= antipathy* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 7 | **is a** | present | the name of the country |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **name** |  |  | the country |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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