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title: “You _must_ remember,” remarked the King, “or I’ll have you executed.” — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “You _must_ remember,” remarked the King, “or I’ll have you executed.” Who acts: You, King, Hatter. 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 clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 74

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“You \_must\_ remember,” remarked the King, “or I’ll have you executed.”

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**Who acts:** You, King, Hatter · **What happens:** remember, remark, have, execute · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, King, Hatter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg11:12:74
# text = “You _must_ remember,” remarked the King, “or I’ll have you executed.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
6	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** *in a quote* | must | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | future | the Hatter *= hatter* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **execute** *in a quote* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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.

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