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title: “Oh, there goes his _precious_ nose!” as an unusually large saucepan… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, there goes his _precious_ nose!” as an unusually large saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it off. Who acts: unusually large saucepan. 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 53

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“Oh, there goes his \_precious\_ nose!” as an unusually large saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it off.

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**Who acts:** unusually large saucepan · **What happens:** go, fly, carry off · **To what, where:** precious nose, nose

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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 (unusually large saucepan), 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:pg11:7:53
# text = “Oh, there goes his _precious_ nose!” as an unusually large saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it off.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
10	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	unusually	unusually	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	saucepan	saucepan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
19	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present |  | Pig's precious nose |  | there |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nose=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past | a unusually large saucepan |  |  |  |  | by nose; close *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Location |
| 3 | **carry off** | past | a unusually large saucepan *not said here* | nose |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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