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title: “Oh, I’m not particular as to size,” Alice hastily replied; “only on… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, I’m not particular as to size,” Alice hastily replied; “only one doesn’t like changing so often, you know.” Who acts: Alice, one, you. 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 cl
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 51

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“Oh, I’m not particular as to size,” Alice hastily replied; “only one doesn’t like changing so often, you know.”

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**Who acts:** Alice, one, you · **What happens:** not be, reply, not change, know · **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, one, 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:pg11:6:51
# text = “Oh, I’m not particular as to size,” Alice hastily replied; “only one doesn’t like changing so often, you know.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’m	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
20	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | as size; particular *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **change** *in a quote* | present · do-support | one |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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