--- title: “Well, I’ll eat it,” said Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, I’ll eat it,” said Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!” Who acts: Alice, cake. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/72/) [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 I. Down the Rabbit-Hole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/) / 72 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, sentence 72 “Well, I’ll eat it,” said Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!” **Who acts:** Alice, cake · **What happens:** eat, say, make, grow, reach, creep · **To what, where:** cake, Alice, key, door, way, garden · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, cake), 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:pg11:2:72 # text = “Well, I’ll eat it,” said Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 creep creep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 39 under under ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 44 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 45 det _ _ 45 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl:unmarked _ _ 46 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 49 into into ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 54 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 55 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 56 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 57 advmod _ _ 57 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 58 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 59 nsubj _ _ 59 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ! ! PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 61 ” " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | future | Alice | cake | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | cake | Alice | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **reach** *in a quote* | can | Alice | the key | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent key=Theme | | 6 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | cake | Alice | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | small *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **creep** *in a quote* | can | Alice | | | the door | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under door=Trajectory | | 9 | **get** *in a quote* | future | Alice | either way | | the garden | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination | | 10 | **not** **care** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Alice | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 11 | **happen** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/73/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. Down the Rabbit-Hole](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/2/)