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title: (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear not… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.) Who acts: Alice, anything. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 71

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(For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.)

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**Who acts:** Alice, anything · **What happens:** have, happen · **To what, where:** clear notion

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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, anything), 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:pg11:3:71
# text = (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Alice | no clear notion |  |  |  | for mouse's knowledge of history | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect | anything |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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