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title: For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in the morning, just time… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you’d only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Who acts: you, instance. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, with it
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 62

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For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you’d only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling!

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**Who acts:** you, instance · **What happens:** suppose, be, begin, 'd, have, whisper · **To what, where:** nine o’clock, lessons, hint, clock, twinkling · **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 (you, instance), 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:pg11:8:62
# text = For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you’d only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling!
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’d	'd	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	whisper	whisper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hint	hint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for instance | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | instance | nine o’clock and time |  |  | morning |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | to-infinitive | instance *not said here* | lessons |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality |
| 4 | **'d** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a hint |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hint=Topic |
| 7 | **go** | present | you *not said here* | the clock |  | a twinkling |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clock=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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