--- title: She soon got it out again, and put it right; “not that it signifies… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: She soon got it out again, and put it right; “not that it signifies much,” she said to herself; “I should think it would be _quite_ as much use in the trial one way up as the other.” Who acts: Alice, tail, I. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/5/) [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/) / 5 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 5 She soon got it out again, and put it right; “not that it signifies much,” she said to herself; “I should think it would be \_quite\_ as much use in the trial one way up as the other.” **Who acts:** Alice, tail, I · **What happens:** get out, put, not signify, say, think, \_ · **To what, where:** tail, Alice · **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 (Alice, tail, I), 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:pg11:13:5 # text = She soon got it out again, and put it right; “not that it signifies much,” she said to herself; “I should think it would be _quite_ as much use in the trial one way up as the other.” 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 right right ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 signifies signify VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 much much ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 “ " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 _ _ VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 quite quite ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 38 punct _ _ 36 as as ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 advcl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl:unmarked _ _ 44 up up ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 45 as as ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get out** | past | Alice | tail | | | again | soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **put** | infinitive | Alice *not said here* | tail | | | | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 3 | **not** **signify** *in a quote* | present | tail | | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice | | Alice | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | should | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **\_** *in a quote* | would · passive | | tail | | | | as the other | tree rules | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/6/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. 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