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title: ‘William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was so… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Who acts: pope, English. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-R
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 11

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‘William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest.

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**Who acts:** pope, English · **What happens:** favour, submit, want, accustom · **To what, where:** cause, William, leaders

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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 (pope, English), 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:pg11:4:11
# text = ‘William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Conqueror	Conqueror	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	favoured	favour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pope	pope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	submitted	submit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	xcomp	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	usurpation	usurpation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **favour** | past · passive | the pope | cause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **submit** | past · passive | the English | William |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **want** | past | the English | leaders |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot leader=Theme |
| 4 | **accustom** | past · perfect · passive | the English *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to usurpation and conquest | tree rules |

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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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