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title: Do come back again, and we won’t talk about cats or dogs either, if… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: Do come back again, and we won’t talk about cats or dogs either, if you don’t like them!” Who acts: you, we. 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 94

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Do come back again, and we won’t talk about cats or dogs either, if you don’t like them!”

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** come back, not talk, not like · **To what, where:** dogs

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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, we), 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:pg11:3:94
# text = Do come back again, and we won’t talk about cats or dogs either, if you don’t like them!”
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **talk** | future | we |  |  |  |  | about cats or dogs; either *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |

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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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