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title: “I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.” Who acts: Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 111

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“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.”

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** have, reply, not take · **To what, where:** nothing, offended tone, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg11:8:111
# text = “I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ve	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	offended	offended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past |  | nothing |  |  | yet |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  |  | a offended tone |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **take** *in a quote* | can | Alice | more |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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