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title: The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on, “‘—fo… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on, “‘—found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the crown. Who acts: Mouse. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, with its dependency 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 23

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The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on, “‘—found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the crown.

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**Who acts:** Mouse · **What happens:** not notice, go on, find, go, meet, offer · **To what, where:** question, William, crown, Mouse · **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), 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:pg11:4:23
# text = The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on, “‘—found it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him the crown.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	on	on	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	advisable	advisable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Edgar	Edgar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Atheling	atheling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	offer	offer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | the Mouse | this question |  |  |  | ‘ *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | past |  |  |  |  |  | hurriedly *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | past |  | question |  |  |  | advisable *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with Edgar Atheling | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with atheling=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | William |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent william=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **offer** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the crown | Mouse |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal crown=Theme |

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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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