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title: (It was this last remark that had made the whole party look so grave… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: (It was this last remark that had made the whole party look so grave and anxious.) Who acts: Nonsense, last remark, whole party. 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 111

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(It was this last remark that had made the whole party look so grave and anxious.)

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**Who acts:** Nonsense, last remark, whole party · **What happens:** be, make, look · **To what, where:** last remark, whole party

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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 (Nonsense, last remark, whole party), 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:pg11:9:111
# text = (It was this last remark that had made the whole party look so grave and anxious.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	remark	remark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nonsense | this last remark |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect | this last remark | the whole party |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | the whole party *not said here* |  |  |  |  | grave *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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