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title: This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it. Who acts: Alice, Dormouse. 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 136

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This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it.

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**Who acts:** Alice, Dormouse · **What happens:** let, go on, interrupt · **To what, where:** answer

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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, Dormouse), 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:pg11:8:136
# text = This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	on	on	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | infinitive | the Dormouse |  |  |  | time |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **interrupt** | gerund | the Dormouse *not said here* | answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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