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title: “It _is_ the same thing with you,” said the Hatter, and here the con… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “It _is_ the same thing with you,” said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn’t much. Who acts: thing, Hatter, conversation, party. A sentence of «Alice's Advent
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 27

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“It \_is\_ the same thing with you,” said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn’t much.

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**Who acts:** thing, Hatter, conversation, party, Alice, writing desks · **What happens:** be, say, drop, sit, think, remember · **To what, where:** same thing, all · **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 (thing, Hatter, conversation, party), 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:pg11:8:27
# text = “It _is_ the same thing with you,” said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn’t much.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
27	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
35	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	obl	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
40	about	about	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	desks	desk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	much	much	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | thing | the same thing |  |  |  | with you | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Hatter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drop** | past | the conversation |  |  | here |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | past | the party |  |  |  | minute | silent *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice |  |  | all |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **remember** | could | Alice |  |  |  |  | about ravens and writing desks | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **is** | past | writing desks |  |  |  |  | much *property* | 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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