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title: “In _that_ direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “li… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “In _that_ direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in _that_ direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Who acts: Cat, that, direction, March Hare. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, with its d
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 104

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“In \_that\_ direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in \_that\_ direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare.

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**Who acts:** Cat, that, direction, March Hare · **What happens:** say, wave, live, direction · **To what, where:** right paw, Hatter, other paw · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat, that, direction, March Hare), 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:pg11:7:104
# text = “In _that_ direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in _that_ direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
6	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	round	round	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Hatter	hatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	_
29	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
32	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wave** | gerund | the Cat *not said here* | \_'s right paw |  |  |  | round *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | present | the Cat *not said here* | a Hatter |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hatter=Location |
| 4 | **direction** *in a quote* |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wave** | gerund | direction *not said here* | the other paw |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient |
| 6 | **live** *in a quote* | present | a March Hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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