--- title: “I dare say you’re wondering why I don’t put my arm round your waist… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “I dare say you’re wondering why I don’t put my arm round your waist,” the Duchess said after a pause: “the reason is, that I’m doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Who acts: I, you, Duchess. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Stor --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/22/) [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/) / 22 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 22 “I dare say you’re wondering why I don’t put my arm round your waist,” the Duchess said after a pause: “the reason is, that I’m doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. **Who acts:** I, you, Duchess · **What happens:** say, be, wonder, not put, temper · **To what, where:** arm, reason, flamingo · **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 (I, you, Duchess), 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:pg11:10:22 # text = “I dare say you’re wondering why I don’t put my arm round your waist,” the Duchess said after a pause: “the reason is, that I’m doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 dare dare AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’re be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 7 wondering wonder VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 11 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 round round ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 waist waist NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pause pause NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 35 doubtful doubtful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 36 about about ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 flamingo flamingo NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | dare | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **put** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | my arm | | | | round your waist | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Duchess | | | | after a pause | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Duchess *= duchess* | the reason *not said here* | | | | be, doubtful *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **temper** *in a quote* | | | your flamingo | | | | | nom temper «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/23/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX. 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