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title: “I _have_ tasted eggs, certainly,” said Alice, who was a very truthf… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “I _have_ tasted eggs, certainly,” said Alice, who was a very truthful child; “but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.” Who acts: Alice, little girls, serpents, you. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, wit
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 106

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“I \_have\_ tasted eggs, certainly,” said Alice, who was a very truthful child; “but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.”

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**Who acts:** Alice, little girls, serpents, you · **What happens:** have, taste, say, be, eat, do · **To what, where:** \_, truthful child, eggs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Alice, little girls, serpents, you), 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:pg11:6:106
# text = “I _have_ tasted eggs, certainly,” said Alice, who was a very truthful child; “but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	tasted	taste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	truthful	truthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
27	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obj	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Alice | \_ and tasted eggs |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent \_=Patient |
| 2 | **taste** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Alice | a truthful child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | little girls | eggs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present | serpents |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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