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title: There could be no doubt that it had a _very_ turn-up nose, much more… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: There could be no doubt that it had a _very_ turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the thing at all. Who acts: doubt, eyes, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lew
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 81

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There could be no doubt that it had a \_very\_ turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the thing at all.

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**Who acts:** doubt, eyes, Alice · **What happens:** be, have, get, not like · **To what, where:** \_, look, all

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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 (doubt, eyes, 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:pg11:7:81
# text = There could be no doubt that it had a _very_ turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the thing at all.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
16	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	snout	snout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
33	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
39	altogether	altogether	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | could | no doubt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | doubt | a \_ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | past · progressive | nose's eyes |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | Alice | the look of the thing |  | all |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=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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