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title: (Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 57

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(Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.)

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**Who acts:** Alice, you, children, row · **What happens:** be, come, go, find, dig, lodge · **To what, where:** general conclusion, English coast, number, sand, houses

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, you, children, row), 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:pg11:3:57
# text = (Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	seaside	seaside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	nmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	bathing	bathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
42	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
43	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	spades	spade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	53	advmod	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
54	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
55	lodging	lodge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	acl	_	_
56	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
59	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nmod	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	compound	_	_
63	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | Alice |  |  |  |  | to the seaside; once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | Alice *not said here* |  |  | the general conclusion |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go** | present | you |  |  | the English coast |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on coast=Location |
| 4 | **find** | present | you | a number of bathing machines in the sea and some children |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 5 | **dig** | gerund | some children *not said here* |  |  | the sand |  | with wooden spades  a row | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with spade=Instrument |
| 6 | **lodge** | gerund | a row *not said here* | houses |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme house=Location |

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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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