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title: “Don’t grunt,” said Alice; “that’s not at all a proper way of expres… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Don’t grunt,” said Alice; “that’s not at all a proper way of expressing yourself.” Who acts: you, Alice, that, proper way. 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 79

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“Don’t grunt,” said Alice; “that’s not at all a proper way of expressing yourself.”

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**Who acts:** you, Alice, that, proper way · **What happens:** not grunt, say, not be, express · **To what, where:** proper way, yourself · **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, that, proper way), 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:pg11:7:79
# text = “Don’t grunt,” said Alice; “that’s not at all a proper way of expressing yourself.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	grunt	grunt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	expressing	express	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grunt** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  | all proper way |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **express** *in a quote* | gerund | all proper way *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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