--- title: “Please your Majesty,” said the Knave, “I didn’t write it, and they… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “Please your Majesty,” said the Knave, “I didn’t write it, and they can’t prove I did: there’s no name signed at the end.” Who acts: Majesty, persons. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/41/) [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 XII. Alice’s Evidence](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/) / 41 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 41 “Please your Majesty,” said the Knave, “I didn’t write it, and they can’t prove I did: there’s no name signed at the end.” **Who acts:** Majesty, persons · **What happens:** say, not write, not prove, do, sign · **To what, where:** Knave, name, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, persons), 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:pg11:13:41 # text = “Please your Majesty,” said the Knave, “I didn’t write it, and they can’t prove I did: there’s no name signed at the end.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Please please INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ 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 Knave Knave PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 14 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 21 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 27 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 29 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 signed sign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ” " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | your Majesty | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **write** *in a quote* | past · do-support | your Majesty *= majesty* | Knave | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **not** **prove** *in a quote* | can | persons *= person* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | your Majesty *= majesty* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sign** *in a quote* | participle | | no name *not said here* | | | at the end | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent at end=Destination | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/42/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. 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