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title: “Can’t remember _what_ things?” said the Caterpillar. — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Can’t remember _what_ things?” said the Caterpillar. Who acts: Ca, Caterpillar. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 31

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“Can’t remember \_what\_ things?” said the Caterpillar.

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**Who acts:** Ca, Caterpillar · **What happens:** not remember, say · **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 (Ca, Caterpillar), 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:pg11:6:31
# text = “Can’t remember _what_ things?” said the Caterpillar.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ca	Ca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Caterpillar	Caterpillar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **remember** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ca |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Caterpillar |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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