--- title: “I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that i… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or if you’d like it put more simply—‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been woul --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/34/) [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/) / 34 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 34 “I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or if you’d like it put more simply—‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’” **Who acts:** Duchess, you, moral, it · **What happens:** agree, say, be, 'd, put, not imagine · **To what, where:** yourself, you, others · **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 (Duchess, you, moral, it), 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:pg11:10:34 # text = “I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or if you’d like it put more simply—‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 quite quite ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 moral moral NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 nmod _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 20 — - PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 cop _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 obj _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 — - PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’d 'd VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 35 like like SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 38 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 37 advmod _ _ 39 simply simply ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 — - PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 44 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 43 obj _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 50 advmod _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 50 cop _ _ 48 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 49 than than ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 53 obj _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 52 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 53 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 parataxis _ _ 54 to to ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl _ _ 56 that that SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 57 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 55 nmod _ _ 58 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 68 nsubj _ _ 59 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 68 cop _ _ 60 or or CCONJ CC _ 66 cc _ _ 61 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 66 aux _ _ 62 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 66 aux _ _ 63 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 66 cop _ _ 64 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 66 cop _ _ 65 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 66 advmod _ _ 66 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 67 than than ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 68 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 57 parataxis _ _ 69 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 74 nsubj _ _ 70 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 74 aux _ _ 71 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 74 aux:pass _ _ 72 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 74 aux _ _ 73 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 74 aux _ _ 74 appeared appear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 68 acl:relcl _ _ 75 to to ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 76 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 74 obl _ _ 77 to to PART TO _ 79 mark _ _ 78 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 79 cop _ _ 79 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 74 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 80 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 81 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 82 ” " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | present | the Duchess *= duchess* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Duchess | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | would · infinitive | you | | | | | seem *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **'d** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **put** *in a quote* | past | moral | | | | | simply *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **imagine** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yourself=Theme | | 7 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | otherwise *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **appear** *in a quote* | might | it | | | | | to others | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | might · perfect | | | | | | otherwise *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **is** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | than others | tree rules | | 11 | **appear** *in a quote* | would · past · perfect · passive | | you | others *= other* | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 12 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | otherwise *property* | tree rules | 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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/35/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/)