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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 47

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“Not \_quite\_ right, I’m afraid,” said Alice, timidly; “some of the words have got altered.”

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**Who acts:** Alice, some · **What happens:** not be, say, get, alter · **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 (Alice, some), 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:pg11:6:47
# text = “Not _quite_ right, I’m afraid,” said Alice, timidly; “some of the words have got altered.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
6	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
10	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	timidly	timidly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
25	altered	alter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **be** *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | timidly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **alter** *in a quote* | participle | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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