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title: “Oh, _please_ mind what you’re doing!” cried Alice, jumping up and d… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, _please_ mind what you’re doing!” cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror. Who acts: you, Alice. 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 52

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“Oh, \_please\_ mind what you’re doing!” cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror.

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**Who acts:** you, Alice · **What happens:** be, do, cry, jump up · **To what, where:** agony · **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 (you, Alice), 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:pg11:7:52
# text = “Oh, _please_ mind what you’re doing!” cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
7	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
11	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | mind *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **jump up** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  | a agony of terror |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in agony=Trajectory |

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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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