---
title: (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: sh… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, “A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!”) Who acts: Alice, this, right way, mouse. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Won
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/68/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 68

# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 68

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
(Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, “A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!”)

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Alice, this, right way, mouse · **What happens:** think, be, speak, not do, remember, have · **To what, where:** right way, thing, mouse, Latin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Alice, this, right way, mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg11:3:68
# text = (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, “A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!”)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
20	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	before	before	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	Grammar	Grammar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	53	discourse	_	_
53	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | must | this | the right way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | the right way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a mouse | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mouse=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **not** **do** | past · perfect | Alice | such thing |  |  |  | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 5 | **remember** | past | Alice |  |  |  |  | of a mouse | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | a mouse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** | participle | a mouse *not said here* |  |  | mouse's brother's Latin |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/67/)
- next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/69/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter II. The Pool of Tears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/3/)