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description: And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, “if one only knew the right way to change them—” when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. Who acts: Alice, one. A senten
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 91

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And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, “if one only knew the right way to change them—” when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.

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**Who acts:** Alice, one · **What happens:** begin, think, know, do, be, change · **To what, where:** other children, Alice, right way, creatures, Cheshire Cat, bough · **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, one), 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:pg11:7:91
# text = And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, “if one only knew the right way to change them—” when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
39	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	44	advmod	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obl:unmarked	_	_
44	startled	startle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
45	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
46	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	Cheshire	Cheshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Cat	Cat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
50	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	conj	_	_
51	on	on	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	parataxis	_	_
59	yards	yards	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
60	off	off	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over other children | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | past | Alice | other children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | might |  |  |  |  |  | as pigs; well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **be** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Alice |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | one | the right way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 7 | **change** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | creatures *= creature* |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 8 | **startle** | past · passive |  | Alice |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 9 | **see** | gerund |  | the Cheshire Cat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus |
| 10 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  | a bough of a tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location |

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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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