--- title: “They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: She gave… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim. Who acts: verses, you, trial. 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 cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/53/) [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/) / 53 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 53 “They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim. **Who acts:** verses, you, trial · **What happens:** tell, be, mention, give, say, not swim · **To what, where:** verses, Rabbit, good character · **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 (verses, you, trial), 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:pg11:13:53 # text = “They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 And and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 mentioned mention VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 But but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | verses *= verse* | | verses *= verse* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past · perfect | you | | | | | to trial | tree rules | | 3 | **mention** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | verses *= verse* *not said here* | verses *= verse* | Rabbit | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to he=Recipient | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | past | trial | a good character | verses *= verse* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient character=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | trial *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **not** **swim** *in a quote* | could | verses *= verse* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/54/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. 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