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title: Alice felt dreadfully puzzled, The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice felt dreadfully puzzled, The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. Who acts: Alice, remark, sort, Hatter. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 43

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Alice felt dreadfully puzzled, The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.

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**Who acts:** Alice, remark, sort, Hatter · **What happens:** feel, puzzle, seem, have, be, remark · **To what, where:** sort, English, meaning

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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, remark, sort, Hatter), 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:pg11:8:43
# text = Alice felt dreadfully puzzled, The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English.
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	remark	remark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **puzzle** | participle | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dreadfully *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the Hatter's remark |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | the Hatter's remark *not said here* | no sort of meaning in meaning |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | sort | English |  |  | yet | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **remark** |  | the Hatter |  |  |  |  |  | nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **sort** |  |  | meaning in meaning |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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