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title: You _must_ have meant some mischief, or else you’d have signed your… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: You _must_ have meant some mischief, or else you’d have signed your name like an honest man.” Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 43

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You \_must\_ have meant some mischief, or else you’d have signed your name like an honest man.”

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** mean, sign, name · **To what, where:** You, name

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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 (you, your), 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:pg11:13:43
# text = You _must_ have meant some mischief, or else you’d have signed your name like an honest man.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	else	else	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’d	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	signed	sign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | must · perfect · passive |  | You |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sign** | would · perfect | you | your name |  |  |  | like a honest man; else *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Destination |
| 3 | **name** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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