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title: And certainly there _was_ a most extraordinary noise going on within… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: And certainly there _was_ a most extraordinary noise going on within—a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces. Who acts: extraordinary noise. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 13

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And certainly there \_was\_ a most extraordinary noise going on within—a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces.

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**Who acts:** extraordinary noise · **What happens:** be, go on, break · **To what, where:** extraordinary noise, dish

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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 (extraordinary noise), 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:pg11:7:13
# text = And certainly there _was_ a most extraordinary noise going on within—a constant howling and sneezing, and every now and then a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to pieces.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	howling	howling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sneezing	sneezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a extraordinary noise and every great crash |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | gerund | a extraordinary noise and every great crash *not said here* |  |  |  |  | within a constant howling and sneezing | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | a dish or kettle |  |  |  | to pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result |

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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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