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title: This time there could be _no_ mistake about it: it was neither more… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: This time there could be _no_ mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it further. Who acts: time, mistake, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, with its dep
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 88

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This time there could be \_no\_ mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it further.

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**Who acts:** time, mistake, Alice · **What happens:** be, feel, carry · **To what, where:** mistake

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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 (time, mistake, 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:pg11:7:88
# text = This time there could be _no_ mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it further.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc:preconj	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
18	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	absurd	absurd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	further	further	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **can** | could | this time |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | mistake |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | mistake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than a pig | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | would | mistake |  |  |  |  | absurd *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Alice | mistake |  |  |  | further *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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