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title: “Now, I’ll manage better this time,” she said to herself, and began… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now, I’ll manage better this time,” she said to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that led into the garden. Who acts: Alice, door. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, with its dependency tree and t
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 153

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“Now, I’ll manage better this time,” she said to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that led into the garden.

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**Who acts:** Alice, door · **What happens:** manage, say, begin, take, unlock, lead · **To what, where:** Alice, little golden key, door, garden · **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, door), 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:pg11:8:153
# text = “Now, I’ll manage better this time,” she said to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that led into the garden.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
7	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	unlocking	unlock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** *in a quote* | future | Alice |  |  |  | now; time | well *property* | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  | Alice |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | the little golden key |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme |
| 5 | **unlock** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 6 | **lead** | past | the door |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into garden=Destination |

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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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