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title: They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—th… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. Who acts: They, looking party, animals. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Car
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 1

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They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.

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**Who acts:** They, looking party, animals · **What happens:** look, be, assemble, draggl, cling, drip · **To what, where:** looking party, bank, animals

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, looking party, animals), 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:pg11:4:1
# text = They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	queer	queer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	draggled	draggl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	clinging	cling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
27	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	nsubj	_	_
33	dripping	drip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | They | a looking party |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **assemble** | past | a looking party |  |  | the bank |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **draggl** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cling** | gerund | the animals with animals's fur *not said here* |  | animals *= animal* |  |  | close *property* | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to they=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **drip** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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