--- title: I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can;—but I must be kind to them,” thought Alice, “or perhaps they won’t walk the way I want to go! Who acts: I, you, kind, dears. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/6/) [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/) / 6 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 6 I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can;—but I must be kind to them,” thought Alice, “or perhaps they won’t walk the way I want to go! **Who acts:** I, you, kind, dears, way · **What happens:** be, manage, think, not walk, want, go · **To what, where:** great deal, best way, dears, Alice, way · **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 (I, you, kind, dears), 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:pg11:3:6 # text = I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can;—but I must be kind to them,” thought Alice, “or perhaps they won’t walk the way I want to go! 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 too too ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 9 off off ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 advcl _ _ 12 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 manage manage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 — - PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 nsubj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ” " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 35 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 36 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 “ " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 40 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 43 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 parataxis _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl:unmarked _ _ 47 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | shall | I | a great deal | | | | off *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **manage** | must | you | the best way | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 3 | **is** | must | I | | dears *= dear* | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | kind | Alice | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot alice=Theme | | 5 | **not** **walk** | future | dears *= dear* | the way | | | | perhaps *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **want** | present | I | the way *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the way *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/7/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. The Pool of Tears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/)