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title: Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a _very_ unpleasant state of mind, she turned away. Who acts: Caterpillar, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Ca
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 21

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Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a \_very\_ unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.

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**Who acts:** Caterpillar, Alice · **What happens:** be, not think, seem, turn away · **To what, where:** puzzling question, unpleasant state, \_

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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, Alice), 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:pg11:6:21
# text = Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a _very_ unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	puzzling	puzzling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
37	away	away	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | another puzzling question |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | could |  |  |  |  |  | as Alice; of any good reason | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the Caterpillar | unpleasant state of mind |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | the Caterpillar *not said here* |  |  | a \_ |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn away** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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