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title: “I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works!” he added looking angril… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works!” he added looking angrily at the March Hare. Who acts: I, butter, wrong. 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 32

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“I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works!” he added looking angrily at the March Hare.

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**Who acts:** I, butter, wrong · **What happens:** tell, not suit, add, look · **To what, where:** you, works · **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 (I, butter, wrong), 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:pg11:8:32
# text = “I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works!” he added looking angrily at the March Hare.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
16	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **suit** *in a quote* | would | butter | the works |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | wrong |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | wrong *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the March Hare; angrily *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hare=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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