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description: Alice called after it; and the others all joined in chorus, “Yes, please do!” but the Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and walked a little quicker. Who acts: Alice, Mouse. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, with its de
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 74

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Alice called after it; and the others all joined in chorus, “Yes, please do!” but the Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and walked a little quicker.

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**Who acts:** Alice, Mouse · **What happens:** call, join, do, shake, walk · **To what, where:** Alice, head, little quicker · **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, 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:pg11:4:74
# text = Alice called after it; and the others all joined in chorus, “Yes, please do!” but the Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and walked a little quicker.
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	quicker	quicker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: express* | participle |  | Alice *not said here* |  |  | after story |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **join** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | in chorus; all *property* | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chorus=Theme |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shake** | past | the Mouse | story's head |  |  |  | impatiently *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 5 | **walk** | past | Alice *not said here* | a little quicker |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quicker=Trajectory |

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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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