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title: “As if it wasn’t trouble enough hatching the eggs,” said the Pigeon;… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “As if it wasn’t trouble enough hatching the eggs,” said the Pigeon; “but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day! Who acts: use, trouble, Pigeon. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 90

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“As if it wasn’t trouble enough hatching the eggs,” said the Pigeon; “but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day!

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**Who acts:** use, trouble, Pigeon · **What happens:** not be, hatch, say, be · **To what, where:** eggs, look out · **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 (use, trouble, 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:pg11:6:90
# text = “As if it wasn’t trouble enough hatching the eggs,” said the Pigeon; “but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	hatching	hatch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | use |  |  |  |  | as trouble; enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hatch** *in a quote* | gerund | trouble *not said here* | the eggs |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Product |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Pigeon |  |  |  | night |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | must | the Pigeon *= pigeon* |  |  | the look out |  | for serpents | 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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