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title: Don’t let him know she liked them best, For this must ever be A secr… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Don’t let him know she liked them best, For this must ever be A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me.” Who acts: you, Rabbit, trial, this. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 58

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Don’t let him know she liked them best, For this must ever be A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me.”

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**Who acts:** you, Rabbit, trial, this · **What happens:** not let, know, like, be, keep · **To what, where:** Rabbit, verses, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Rabbit, trial, this), 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:pg11:13:58
# text = Don’t let him know she liked them best, For this must ever be A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me.”
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	For	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **like** | past | trial | verses *= verse* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | must | this |  |  |  | ever | for a secret; between yourself | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | participle |  |  |  | all rest |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from rest=Eventuality |

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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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