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title: “Whoever lives there,” thought Alice, “it’ll never do to come upon t… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Whoever lives there,” thought Alice, “it’ll never do to come upon them _this_ size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!” Who acts: Whoever, Alice, house. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, with its dependency tree and 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 119

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“Whoever lives there,” thought Alice, “it’ll never do to come upon them \_this\_ size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!”

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**Who acts:** Whoever, Alice, house · **What happens:** live, think, not do, come, frighten · **To what, where:** size, sizes, wits · **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 (Whoever, Alice, house), 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:pg11:6:119
# text = “Whoever lives there,” thought Alice, “it’ll never do to come upon them _this_ size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	_
22	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	wits	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *in a quote* | present | Whoever |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | future | house |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | house *not said here* | this size |  |  |  | upon sizes *= size* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |
| 5 | **frighten** *in a quote* | should | Alice | sizes *= size* |  | sizes's wits |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=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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