--- title: “I beg pardon, your Majesty,” he began, “for bringing these in: but… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “I beg pardon, your Majesty,” he began, “for bringing these in: but I hadn’t quite finished my tea when I was sent for.” Who acts: King, Rabbit. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/31/) [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 XI. Who Stole the Tarts?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/) / 31 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 31 “I beg pardon, your Majesty,” he began, “for bringing these in: but I hadn’t quite finished my tea when I was sent for.” **Who acts:** King, Rabbit · **What happens:** beg, begin, bring in, not finish, send · **To what, where:** pardon, these, tea, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Rabbit), 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:pg11:12:31 # text = “I beg pardon, your Majesty,” he began, “for bringing these in: but I hadn’t quite finished my tea when I was sent for.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 beg beg VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 4 pardon pardon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 xcomp _ _ 16 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 15 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 22 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 quite quite ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 finished finish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 when when SCONJ WRB _ 30 mark _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | the King *= king* | pardon | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | | 2 | **begin** | past | Rabbit | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **bring in** *in a quote* | gerund | Rabbit *not said here* | these | | | | | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme this=Asset | | 4 | **not** **finish** *in a quote* | past | the King *= king* | my tea | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tea=Eventuality | | 5 | **send** *in a quote* | past · passive | | the King *= king* | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/32/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/)