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title: And it’ll fetch things when you throw them, and it’ll sit up and beg… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: And it’ll fetch things when you throw them, and it’ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things—I can’t remember half of them—and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it’s so useful, it’s worth a hundred pounds! Who acts: terrier, you, I, half. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II. The Pool of Tears, sentence 90

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And it’ll fetch things when you throw them, and it’ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things—I can’t remember half of them—and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it’s so useful, it’s worth a hundred pounds!

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**Who acts:** terrier, you, I, half · **What happens:** fetch, throw, sit up, beg, not remember, belong · **To what, where:** things, half · **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 (terrier, you, I, half), 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:pg11:3:90
# text = And it’ll fetch things when you throw them, and it’ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things—I can’t remember half of them—and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it’s so useful, it’s worth a hundred pounds!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
32	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	31	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	so	so	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
56	worth	worth	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	58	det:predet	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	59	nummod	_	_
59	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | future | terrier | things |  |  |  | all sorts of things *obl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | present | you | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **sit up** | future | terrier |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | infinitive | terrier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for terrier's dinner | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for dinner=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **remember** | can | I | half of things |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent half=Theme |
| 6 | **belong** | present | terrier |  |  |  |  | to a farmer | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | half |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is** | present | terrier |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **sort** |  |  | things |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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