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title: Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished. Who acts: Alice, use, Pigeon. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 89

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Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.

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**Who acts:** Alice, use, Pigeon · **What happens:** be, think, say, finish · **To what, where:** anything · **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, use, Pigeon), 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:pg11:6:89
# text = Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	puzzled	puzzled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | puzzled *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | no use |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | no use *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
| 5 | **finish** | past · perfect | the Pigeon |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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