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title: And when I grow up, I’ll write one—but I’m grown up now,” she added… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: And when I grow up, I’ll write one—but I’m grown up now,” she added in a sorrowful tone; “at least there’s no room to grow up any more _here_.” Who acts: I, book. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, with its dependency tre
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 40

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And when I grow up, I’ll write one—but I’m grown up now,” she added in a sorrowful tone; “at least there’s no room to grow up any more \_here\_.”

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**Who acts:** I, book · **What happens:** grow up, write, add · **To what, where:** one, sorrowful tone

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, book), 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:pg11:5:40
# text = And when I grow up, I’ll write one—but I’m grown up now,” she added in a sorrowful tone; “at least there’s no room to grow up any more _here_.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’m	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	obl	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	any	any	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | future | I | one |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **grow up** | present · passive | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | book |  |  | a sorrowful tone |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow up** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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