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description: Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought it would be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation. Who acts: Alice, tone. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 49

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Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought it would be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation.

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**Who acts:** Alice, tone · **What happens:** do, think, be, introduce, intonate · **To what, where:** all, other subject, remark · **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 (Alice, tone), 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:pg11:7:49
# text = Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought it would be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation.
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	remark	remark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	introduce	introduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Alice | all |  |  |  | like the tone of this remark | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | would | tone |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **introduce** | to-infinitive | tone *not said here* | some other subject of conversation |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 5 | **intonate** |  |  | this remark |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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