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title: For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unf… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, “So you think you’re changed, do you?” Who acts: promising, last, you. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Cat
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 29

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For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, “So you think you’re changed, do you?”

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**Who acts:** promising, last, you · **What happens:** puff away, speak, unfold, take, say, think · **To what, where:** arms, hookah, mouth, you · **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 (promising, last, 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:pg11:6:29
# text = For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, “So you think you’re changed, do you?”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	puffed	puff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj:outer	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
14	unfolded	unfold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hookah	hookah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	So	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’re	're	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
38	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **puff away** | past | promising |  |  |  | minute | away *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | promising *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **unfold** | past | last | promising's arms |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | past | last *not said here* | the hookah |  | promising's mouth | again |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent hookah=Theme out mouth=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | promising *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **change** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | 're *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |

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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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