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title: “Would _you_ like cats if you were me?” — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Would _you_ like cats if you were me?” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 77

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“Would \_you\_ like cats if you were me?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** cats

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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), 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:pg11:3:77
# text = “Would _you_ like cats if you were me?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | you | cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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