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title: “You may go,” said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “You may go,” said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court, without even waiting to put his shoes on. 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 claus
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI. Who Stole the Tarts?, sentence 90

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“You may go,” said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court, without even waiting to put his shoes on.

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**Who acts:** You, King, Hatter · **What happens:** go, say, leave, wait, put · **To what, where:** court, shoes · **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:pg11:12:90
# text = “You may go,” said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court, without even waiting to put his shoes on.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | may | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **leave** | past | the Hatter | the court |  |  |  | hurriedly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | the Hatter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | to-infinitive | the Hatter *not said here* | Hatter's shoes |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoe=Goal |

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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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