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title: “Of course not,” Alice replied very readily: “but that’s because it… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Of course not,” Alice replied very readily: “but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.” Who acts: Alice, o’clock. 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 clau
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 41

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“Of course not,” Alice replied very readily: “but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.”

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**Who acts:** Alice, o’clock · **What happens:** reply, stay · **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, o’clock), 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:pg11:8:41
# text = “Of course not,” Alice replied very readily: “but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** *in a quote* | present | o’clock *= o'clock* |  |  |  | time; year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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