--- title: And yet I don’t know,” he went on, spreading out the verses on his k… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: And yet I don’t know,” he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at them with one eye; “I seem to see some meaning in them, after all. Who acts: I, King. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/64/) [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/) / 64 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII. Alice’s Evidence, sentence 64 And yet I don’t know,” he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at them with one eye; “I seem to see some meaning in them, after all. **Who acts:** I, King · **What happens:** not know, go on, spread out, look, seem, see · **To what, where:** verses, knee, meaning · **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 (I, King), 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:pg11:13:64 # text = And yet I don’t know,” he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at them with one eye; “I seem to see some meaning in them, after all. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 yet yet ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 11 on on ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 spreading spread VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 verses verse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 34 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 35 det _ _ 35 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 after after ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I | | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **go on** *in a quote* | past | King | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **spread out** *in a quote* | gerund | King *not said here* | the verses | | King's knee | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent verse=Theme on knee=Destination | | 4 | **look** *in a quote* | gerund | King *not said here* | | | | | at verses *= verse*; with one eye | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | | 5 | **seem** | present | I | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | some meaning | | | | in verses *= verse* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/13/65/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. 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