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title: I gave her one, they gave him two, You gave us three or more; They a… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: I gave her one, they gave him two, You gave us three or more; They all returned from him to you, Though they were mine before. Who acts: I, verses, You. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 55

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I gave her one, they gave him two, You gave us three or more; They all returned from him to you, Though they were mine before.

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**Who acts:** I, verses, You · **What happens:** give, return, be · **To what, where:** one, trial, two, Rabbit, three, us

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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 (I, verses, You), 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:pg11:13:55
# text = I gave her one, they gave him two, You gave us three or more; They all returned from him to you, Though they were mine before.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
20	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	conj	_	_
30	before	before	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | I | one | trial |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient one=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | verses *= verse* | two | Rabbit |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient two=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | You | three | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient three=Theme |
| 4 | **return** | past | verses *= verse* |  | you |  |  | from Rabbit | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from he=Initial\_State to you=Result |
| 5 | **is a** | past | verses *= verse* | mine |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |

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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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