--- title: Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes peop… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. W --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/4/) [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/) / 4 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 4 Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. **Who acts:** Soup, pepper, people, vinegar, camomile, such things · **What happens:** do, be, make, temper, go on, find out · **To what, where:** pepper, people, new kind, children · **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 (Soup, pepper, people, vinegar), 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:pg11:10:4 # text = Soup does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. 1 Soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 5 without without ADP IN _ 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 — - PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Maybe maybe ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 11 advmod _ _ 11 pepper pepper NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 tempered temper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ” " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 22 on on ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 much much ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 parataxis _ _ 27 at at SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 aux _ _ 29 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 “ " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 vinegar vinegar NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 sour sour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 — - PUNCT : _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 camomile camomile NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 parataxis _ _ 47 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 48 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 49 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 51 — - PUNCT : _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 53 — - PUNCT : _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 55 barley barley NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 56 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 parataxis _ _ 58 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 59 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 conj _ _ 61 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 62 nsubj _ _ 62 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 60 acl:relcl _ _ 63 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 obj _ _ 64 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 66 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 64 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 tempered temper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 62 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Soup | | | | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Soup | pepper | | | | always, maybe *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | pepper | people | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **temper** | participle | people *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go on** *in a quote* | past | pepper | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **find out** *in a quote* | gerund · perfect | pepper *not said here* | a new kind of rule vinegar | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Topic | | 7 | **make** | present | vinegar | people | | | | sour *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 8 | **make** | present | camomile | people | | | | bitter *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 9 | **make** | present | such things | children | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **temper** | participle | children *not said here* | | | | | | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/5/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/)