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title: “Found _it_,” the Mouse replied rather crossly: “of course you know… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Found _it_,” the Mouse replied rather crossly: “of course you know what ‘it’ means.” Who acts: Mouse, you, archbishop. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 20

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“Found \_it\_,” the Mouse replied rather crossly: “of course you know what ‘it’ means.”

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**Who acts:** Mouse, you, archbishop · **What happens:** find, reply, know, mean · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mouse, you, archbishop), 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:pg11:4:20
# text = “Found _it_,” the Mouse replied rather crossly: “of course you know what ‘it’ means.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
3	_	_	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	crossly	crossly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
16	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	fixed	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | \_ archbishop | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Mouse |  |  |  |  | crossly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | archbishop |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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