--- title: “You can’t think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “You can’t think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!” said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice’s, and they walked off together. Who acts: You, I, Duchess, they. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/) / [Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/) / 1 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 1 “You can’t think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!” said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice’s, and they walked off together. **Who acts:** You, I, Duchess, they · **What happens:** not think, be, see, thing, say, tuck · **To what, where:** you, arm, Alice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, Duchess, they), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg11:10:1 # text = “You can’t think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!” said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice’s, and they walked off together. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 9 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 again again ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 tucked tuck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 affectionately affectionately ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’s 's PART POS _ 32 case _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 38 off off ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 together together ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | You | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **thing** *in a quote* | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Duchess | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **tuck** | past | Duchess | Duchess's arm | | Alice | | affectionately *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme into alice=Destination | | 7 | **walk off** | past | they | | | | | off, together *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [Chapter VIII. 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