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title: There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whisp… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers now and then; such as, “Sure, I don’t like it, yer honour, at all, at all!” Who acts: long silence, Alice, Rabbit. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill,
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 75

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There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers now and then; such as, “Sure, I don’t like it, yer honour, at all, at all!”

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**Who acts:** long silence, Alice, Rabbit · **What happens:** be, hear, not like · **To what, where:** whispers, silence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (long silence, Alice, Rabbit), 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:pg11:5:75
# text = There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers now and then; such as, “Sure, I don’t like it, yer honour, at all, at all!”
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
14	whispers	whisper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Sure	sure	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	yer	y	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	amod	_	_
32	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a long silence after this |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | could | Alice | whispers |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Rabbit *= rabbit* | silence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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