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title: Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there’s no harm in trying.” Who acts: Everything, I, way, harm. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 65

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Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there’s no harm in trying.”

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**Who acts:** Everything, I, way, harm · **What happens:** be, think, talk, try · **To what, where:** way, rate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Everything, I, way, harm), 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:pg11:3:65
# text = Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there’s no harm in trying.”
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Everything |  |  | the way; here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | should | I | the way *not said here* |  | any rate |  | likely *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent way=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** | can | way |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **try** | gerund | no harm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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