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description: The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: “There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you! Who acts: Mouse, Alice, nice little dog. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 88

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The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: “There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you!

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**Who acts:** Mouse, Alice, nice little dog · **What happens:** not answer, go, be, like, show · **To what, where:** you · **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 (Mouse, Alice, nice little dog), 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:pg11:3:88
# text = The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: “There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
21	near	near	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **answer** *speech: express* | past · do-support | the Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on eagerly=Location |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | such nice little dog near our house |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **like** *in a quote* | should | the Mouse *= mouse* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **show** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Mouse *= mouse* *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |

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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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