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title: Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else’—but, oh dear!” cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, “I do wish they _would_ put their heads down! Who acts: you, I, Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderlan
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 47

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Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else’—but, oh dear!” cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, “I do wish they \_would\_ put their heads down!

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**Who acts:** you, I, Alice · **What happens:** tell, like, come up, stay down, be, cry · **To what, where:** me, somebody, tears, heads · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, I, Alice), 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:pg11:3:47
# text = Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else’—but, oh dear!” cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, “I do wish they _would_ put their heads down!
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	that	that	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	xcomp	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
29	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’m	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
32	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	obj	_	_
33	else	else	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	39	discourse	_	_
39	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
42	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
43	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	burst	burst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	iobj	_	_
57	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	60	punct	_	_
60	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
61	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obj	_	_
63	down	down	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  | then |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **come up** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stay down** | future | I |  |  | here |  | down *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | present | I | somebody |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot somebody=Theme |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | with a sudden burst of tears | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **wish** | present · do-support | I |  | tears *= tear* |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 8 | **put down** | would |  | tears's heads |  |  |  | down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
| 9 | **burst** *in a quote* |  |  | tears |  |  |  |  | nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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