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title: “In that case,” said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, “I move… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “In that case,” said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, “I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies—” Who acts: Dodo, meeting. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, with its depen
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 27

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“In that case,” said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, “I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies—”

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**Who acts:** Dodo, meeting · **What happens:** say, rise, move, adjourn, adopt · **To what, where:** case, feet, energetic remedies · **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 (Dodo, meeting), 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:pg11:4:27
# text = “In that case,” said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, “I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies—”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	adjourn	adjourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	adoption	adoption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
31	energetic	energetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	remedies	remedy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	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 | the Dodo |  |  | that case |  | solemnly *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in case=Manner |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | the Dodo *not said here* |  |  | Dodo's feet |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **move** *in a quote* | present | the Dodo *= dodo* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **adjourn** *in a quote* | infinitive | the meeting |  |  |  |  | for the immediate adoption of energetic remedies | tree rules |
| 5 | **adopt** *in a quote* |  |  | energetic remedies |  |  |  |  | nom adoption «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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