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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 18

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‘Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable—’”

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**Who acts:** Edwin · **What happens:** declare, find · **To what, where:** Stigand, archbishop

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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 (Edwin), 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:pg11:4:18
# text = ‘Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable—’”
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Edwin	Edwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Morcar	Morcar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	earls	earl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Mercia	Mercia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Northumbria	Northumbria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	Stigand	Stigand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	patriotic	patriotic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Canterbury	Canterbury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	advisable	advisable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	SYM	SYM	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Edwin and Morcar | Stigand |  |  |  | for Northumbria | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | past | Edwin and Morcar *not said here* | archbishop |  |  |  | advisable *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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