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title: “That’s none of _your_ business, Two!” said Seven. — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “That’s none of _your_ business, Two!” said Seven. Who acts: none. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 10

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“That’s none of \_your\_ business, Two!” said Seven.

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**Who acts:** none · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** none, Seven · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none), 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:pg11:9:10
# text = “That’s none of _your_ business, Two!” said Seven.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	14	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
9	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## 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 |  | none |  |  |  | of your business | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | none | Seven |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent seven=Topic |

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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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