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title: The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in sile… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice. Who acts: Caterpillar. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpil
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 1

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The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.

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**Who acts:** Caterpillar · **What happens:** look, take, address · **To what, where:** hookah, mouth, Alice, languid sleepy voice

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caterpillar), 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:pg11:6:1
# text = The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obl	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hookah	hookah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	languid	languid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the Caterpillar and Alice |  |  |  | time | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past |  | the hookah |  | hookah's mouth |  | at the last Caterpillar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent hookah=Theme out mouth=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **address** | past |  |  | Alice | a languid sleepy voice |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination |

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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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