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title: He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Ha… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 129

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He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare moved into the Dormouse’s place, and Alice rather unwillingly took the place of the March Hare.

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**Who acts:** Hatter, Dormouse, March Hare, Alice · **What happens:** move on, speak, follow, move, take · **To what, where:** Hatter, 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 (Hatter, Dormouse, March Hare, 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:pg11:8:129
# text = He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare moved into the Dormouse’s place, and Alice rather unwillingly took the place of the March Hare.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move on** | past | Hatter |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Hatter |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | past | the Dormouse | Hatter |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **move** | past | the March Hare |  |  | the Dormouse's place |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into place=Trajectory |
| 5 | **take** | past | Alice | the place of the March Hare |  |  |  | unwillingly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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