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title: And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing. Who acts: Alice, candle. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, with its dependency tree and
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 65

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And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

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**Who acts:** Alice, candle · **What happens:** try, fancy, be, not remember, see, flame · **To what, where:** flame, thing · **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, candle), 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:pg11:2:65
# text = And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
13	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
27	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	aux	_	_
28	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
29	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	31	det:predet	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fancy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present · passive |  | the flame of a candle |  |  | after the candle | blow *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **remember** | could | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | gerund · perfect |  | such thing |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 6 | **flame** |  | a candle |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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