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title: Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was s… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment’s pause. Who acts: Duchess, much. 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 c
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 39

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Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment’s pause.

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**Who acts:** Duchess, much · **What happens:** sneeze, howl

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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 (Duchess, much), 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:pg11:7:39
# text = Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment’s pause.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sneezed	sneeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	sneezing	sneeze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
18	alternately	alternately	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	pause	pause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneeze** | past | the Duchess |  |  |  |  | occasionally *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sneeze** | past · progressive | much |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **howl** | gerund | much *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without a moment's pause; alternately *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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