--- title: “I’m sure those are not the right words,” said poor Alice, and her e… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “I’m sure those are not the right words,” said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, “I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! Who acts: poor Alice, e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/43/) [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 II. The Pool of Tears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/) / 43 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 43 “I’m sure those are not the right words,” said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, “I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! **Who acts:** poor Alice, eyes, Alice · **What happens:** be, not be, say, fill, go on, mabel · **To what, where:** right words, poor Alice, poky little house, toys · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Alice, eyes, Alice), 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:pg11:3:43 # text = “I’m sure those are not the right words,” said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, “I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 4 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 5 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 27 on on ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 Mabel mabel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 34 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 conj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 46 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 49 nsubj _ _ 47 poky poky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 53 next next ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 54 to to ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 56 det _ _ 56 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obj _ _ 57 to to PART TO _ 58 mark _ _ 58 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 acl _ _ 59 with with ADP IN _ 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 62 oh oh INTJ UH _ 67 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ! ! PUNCT . _ 62 punct _ _ 64 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 66 advmod _ _ 65 so so ADV RB _ 66 advmod _ _ 66 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ _ 67 lessons lesson NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ _ 68 to to PART TO _ 69 mark _ _ 69 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 67 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 70 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | poor Alice *= alice* | | | | | sure *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | | that right words | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | poor Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **fill** | participle | Alice's eyes | | | | again | with tears | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tear=Instrument | | 5 | **go on** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **mabel** *in a quote* | must · passive | | poor Alice *= alice* | | | after all | | tree rules | | 7 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | poor Alice *= alice* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | poor Alice *= alice* *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **live** *in a quote* | infinitive | poor Alice *= alice* *not said here* | | | poky little house | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | | 10 | **have** *in a quote* | present | poor Alice *not said here* | no toys | | | | many lessons *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Patient | | 11 | **play** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | poor Alice *not said here* | no toys *not said here* | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **learn** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | poor Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/44/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. The Pool of Tears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/)