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title: “As if _I_ would talk on such a subject! — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “As if _I_ would talk on such a subject! Who acts: Alice. 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 83

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“As if \_I\_ would talk on such a subject!

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** talk · **To what, where:** subject

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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), 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:pg11:3:83
# text = “As if _I_ would talk on such a subject!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** *in a quote* | would | Alice |  |  | such subject |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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