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title: “Why, _she_, of course,” said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one f… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why, _she_, of course,” said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out in a confused way, “Prizes! Who acts: Dodo, whole party. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 41

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“Why, \_she\_, of course,” said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out in a confused way, “Prizes!

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**Who acts:** Dodo, whole party · **What happens:** say, point, call out · **To what, where:** Alice, confused way · **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, whole party), 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:pg11:4:41
# text = “Why, _she_, of course,” said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out in a confused way, “Prizes!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	advcl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	advcl:relcl	_	_
9	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	advmod	_	_
29	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	nmod	_	_
30	round	round	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Prizes	prize	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	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 |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **point** | gerund | the Dodo *not said here* |  | Alice |  |  | with one finger | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to alice=Recipient |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | gerund | the whole party at crowded and Prizes *not said here* |  |  | a confused way |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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