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title: “I’ve seen a good many little girls in my time, but never _one_ with… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “I’ve seen a good many little girls in my time, but never _one_ with such a neck as that! Who acts: Pigeon. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 102

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“I’ve seen a good many little girls in my time, but never \_one\_ with such a neck as that!

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**Who acts:** Pigeon · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** good many little girls

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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 (Pigeon), 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:pg11:6:102
# text = “I’ve seen a good many little girls in my time, but never _one_ with such a neck as that!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Pigeon *= pigeon* | a good many little girls |  |  | in my time | with such neck as that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |

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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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