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title: “Which would _not_ be an advantage,” said Alice, who felt very glad… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Which would _not_ be an advantage,” said Alice, who felt very glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge. Who acts: Alice, opportunity. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 55

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“Which would \_not\_ be an advantage,” said Alice, who felt very glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge.

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**Who acts:** Alice, opportunity · **What happens:** not \_, be, say, feel, get, show off · **To what, where:** advantage, opportunity, little · **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, opportunity), 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:pg11:7:55
# text = “Which would _not_ be an advantage,” said Alice, who felt very glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	_	_	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	little	little	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **\_** *in a quote* | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a advantage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | a opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opportunity=Stimulus |
| 6 | **show off** | gerund | a opportunity *not said here* | a little of Alice's knowledge |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent little=Recipient |

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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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