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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 25

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But the insolence of his Normans—’ How are you getting on now, my dear?” it continued, turning to Alice as it spoke.

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**Who acts:** you, conduct · **What happens:** get, continue, turn, speak · **To what, where:** insolence, Alice · **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 (you, conduct), 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:pg11:4:25
# text = But the insolence of his Normans—’ How are you getting on now, my dear?” it continued, turning to Alice as it spoke.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	insolence	insolence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Normans	Norman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	_
9	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on now=Source |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | conduct | the insolence of William's Normans |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** *in a quote* | gerund | conduct *not said here* |  | Alice |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to alice=Result |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | conduct |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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