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title: “But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two peo… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two people! Who acts: advice, poor 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 69

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“But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two people!

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**Who acts:** advice, poor Alice · **What happens:** be, think, pretend · **To what, where:** use, two people, two · **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 (advice, poor 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:pg11:2:69
# text = “But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two people!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | advice | no use |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | poor Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pretend** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | poor Alice *not said here* | two people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | two |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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