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title: “There might be some sense in your knocking,” the Footman went on wi… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “There might be some sense in your knocking,” the Footman went on without attending to her, “if we had the door between us. Who acts: Footman, we, your. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 15

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“There might be some sense in your knocking,” the Footman went on without attending to her, “if we had the door between us.

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**Who acts:** Footman, we, your · **What happens:** be, go on, attend, have, knock · **To what, where:** sense, knocking, footman, door

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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 (Footman, we, your), 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:pg11:7:15
# text = “There might be some sense in your knocking,” the Footman went on without attending to her, “if we had the door between us.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	knocking	knocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Footman	Footman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	on	on	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	attending	attend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	between	between	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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* | infinitive |  | some sense |  | your knocking |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | past | the Footman |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **attend** | gerund | the Footman *not said here* |  | footman |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to she=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | we | the door |  |  |  | between us | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 5 | **knock** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom knocking «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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