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title: The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for repeating hi… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for repeating his remark, with variations. Who acts: Footman, good opportunity, dreadful. 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 clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 29

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The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for repeating his remark, with variations.

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**Who acts:** Footman, good opportunity, dreadful · **What happens:** seem, think, repeat, remark · **To what, where:** this, remark

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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, good opportunity, dreadful), 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:pg11:7:29
# text = The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for repeating his remark, with variations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Footman	Footman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	repeating	repeat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	remark	remark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	variations	variation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the Footman |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the Footman *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme opportunity=Attribute |
| 3 | **repeat** | gerund | a good opportunity *not said here* | dreadful's remark and variations |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Eventuality |
| 4 | **remark** |  | dreadful |  |  |  |  |  | nom remark «communication transitive»: 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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