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title: Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make _one_ respectable pers… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make _one_ respectable person!” 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 70

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Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make \_one\_ respectable person!”

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**What happens:** leave, make · **To what, where:** one

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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: 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:pg11:2:70
# text = Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make _one_ respectable person!”
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
15	respectable	respectable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product |

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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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