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title: “Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,” said Alice; “all I k… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,” said Alice; “all I know is, it would feel very queer to _me_.” Who acts: feelings, Alice, Caterpillar, bit. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 14

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“Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,” said Alice; “all I know is, it would feel very queer to \_me\_.”

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**Who acts:** feelings, Alice, Caterpillar, bit · **What happens:** be, say, know, \_ · **To what, where:** Caterpillar · **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 (feelings, Alice, Caterpillar, bit), 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:pg11:6:14
# text = “Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,” said Alice; “all I know is, it would feel very queer to _me_.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obl	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	_	_	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | may | your feelings |  |  |  |  | different, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the Caterpillar *= caterpillar* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | would · present | bit |  |  |  |  | all *obl*; feel, queer *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **\_** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | bit *not said here* | the Caterpillar *= caterpillar* |  |  |  |  | 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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