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title: “I want a clean cup,” interrupted the Hatter: “let’s all move one pl… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “I want a clean cup,” interrupted the Hatter: “let’s all move one place on.” Who acts: Treacle, ’s. 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 128

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“I want a clean cup,” interrupted the Hatter: “let’s all move one place on.”

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**Who acts:** Treacle, ’s · **What happens:** want, interrupt, let, move on · **To what, where:** clean cup, Hatter, one place · **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 (Treacle, ’s), 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:pg11:8:128
# text = “I want a clean cup,” interrupted the Hatter: “let’s all move one place on.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Treacle | a clean cup |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cup=Theme |
| 2 | **interrupt** | past |  | the Hatter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **move on** *in a quote* | present | ’s | one place |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent place=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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