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title: “They must go by the carrier,” she thought; “and how funny it’ll see… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “They must go by the carrier,” she thought; “and how funny it’ll seem, sending presents to one’s own feet! Who acts: dears, kind, it. 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 9

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“They must go by the carrier,” she thought; “and how funny it’ll seem, sending presents to one’s own feet!

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**Who acts:** dears, kind, it · **What happens:** go, think, seem, send · **To what, where:** presents, one own feet · **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 (dears, kind, it), 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:pg11:3:9
# text = “They must go by the carrier,” she thought; “and how funny it’ll seem, sending presents to one’s own feet!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	carrier	carrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	sending	send	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
22	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | must | dears *= dear* |  |  |  |  | by the carrier | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by carrier=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | kind |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** *in a quote* | future | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | gerund |  | presents |  | one own feet |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent present=Theme to foot=Destination |

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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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