--- title: She said this last word two or three times over to herself, being ra… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: She said this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all. Who acts: Alice, that, few little girls. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Cha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/8/) [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/) / 8 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 8 She said this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all. **Who acts:** Alice, that, few little girls · **What happens:** say, be, think, girl, know, mean · **To what, where:** last word, Alice, meaning, all, word · **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 (Alice, that, few little girls), 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:pg11:12:8 # text = She said this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather proud of it: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 4 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 conj _ _ 9 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 over over ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 cop _ _ 15 rather rather ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 25 rightly rightly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 26 too too ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 nsubj _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nmod _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice | this last word two times | Alice | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to herself=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | of word; proud *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **girl** | | that | | | | of Alice's age | | tree rules | | 5 | **know** | past | few little girls | the meaning of word | | all | | rightly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | | 6 | **mean** | | | word | | | | | nom meaning «communication 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/12/9/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI. 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