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title: “As wet as ever,” said Alice in a melancholy tone: “it doesn’t seem… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “As wet as ever,” said Alice in a melancholy tone: “it doesn’t seem to dry me at all.” Who acts: Alice, it. 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 26

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“As wet as ever,” said Alice in a melancholy tone: “it doesn’t seem to dry me at all.”

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**Who acts:** Alice, it · **What happens:** say, not seem, dry · **To what, where:** melancholy tone, Alice, all · **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 (Alice, it), 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:pg11:4:26
# text = “As wet as ever,” said Alice in a melancholy tone: “it doesn’t seem to dry me at all.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  |  | a melancholy tone |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **seem** *in a quote* | present · do-support | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **dry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | Alice |  | all |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |

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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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