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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 67

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“Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, rather sharply; “I advise you to leave off this minute!”

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**Who acts:** use, Alice · **What happens:** come, cry, say, advise, leave off · **To what, where:** Alice · **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 (use, 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:pg11:2:67
# text = “Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, rather sharply; “I advise you to leave off this minute!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	advise	advise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | no use *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like no use | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Alice |  | Alice |  |  | sharply *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **advise** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Alice | Alice |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **leave off** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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