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title: Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 87

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Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, “I really must be getting home; the night-air doesn’t suit my throat!” and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children, “Come away, my dears!

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**Who acts:** Some, night air · **What happens:** hurry off, begin, wrap up, remark, get, not suit · **To what, where:** birds, sensation, throat, Canary, trembling voice, dears · **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 (Some, night air), 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:pg11:4:87
# text = Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, “I really must be getting home; the night-air doesn’t suit my throat!” and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children, “Come away, my dears!
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Magpie	Magpie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	wrapping	wrap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	remarking	remark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	really	really	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
27	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
28	home	home	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Canary	Canary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
45	out	out	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
56	away	away	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	dears	dear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurry off** | participle |  | the birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Some |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wrap up** | gerund | Some *not said here* | sensation |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 4 | **remark** *speech: express* | gerund | Some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | must · progressive | Some |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **not** **suit** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the night air | my throat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | a Canary |  | a trembling voice to sensation's children |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 8 | **come away** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my dears |  |  |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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