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title: “It is a very good height indeed!” said the Caterpillar angrily, rea… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is a very good height indeed!” said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high). Who acts: height, good height. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, with its dependency tree and
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 56

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“It is a very good height indeed!” said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high).

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**Who acts:** height, good height · **What happens:** be, say, rear, speak · **To what, where:** good height, height · **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 (height, good height), 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:pg11:6:56
# text = “It is a very good height indeed!” said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high).
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	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	_	_
14	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	rearing	rear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | height | a good height |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | a good height |  |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rear** | gerund | a good height *not said here* | height |  |  |  | upright *property* | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | height |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | height |  |  |  |  | three inches *obl:unmarked*; exactly, high *property* | tree rules |

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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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