--- title: “Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, ‘Let us both go to… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, ‘Let us both go to law: _I_ will prosecute _you_.—Come, I’ll take no denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I’ve nothing to do.’ Who acts: Fury, That, both, Mouse. 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/pg11/4/58/) [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 III. A Caucus-Race and a Long…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/) / 58 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, sentence 58 “Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, ‘Let us both go to law: \_I\_ will prosecute \_you\_.—Come, I’ll take no denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I’ve nothing to do.’ **Who acts:** Fury, That, both, Mouse, We · **What happens:** say, meet, let, go, prosecute, come · **To what, where:** mouse, house, us, law, you, denial · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fury, That, both, Mouse), 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:pg11:4:58 # text = “Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, ‘Let us both go to law: _I_ will prosecute _you_.—Come, I’ll take no denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I’ve nothing to do.’ 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Fury Fury PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nsubj _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 17 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 19 nsubj _ _ 19 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 23 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 27 punct _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 prosecute prosecute VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 28 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 — - PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 38 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 39 det _ _ 39 denial denial NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 41 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 parataxis _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 : : PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 47 For for ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 really really ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 49 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 50 det _ _ 50 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 51 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ’ve have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 53 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 52 obj _ _ 54 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 55 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Fury | | a mouse | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mouse=Recipient | | 2 | **meet** *in a quote* | past | That | | | the house | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | us | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present | both | | | law | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to law=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **prosecute** *in a quote* | future | the Mouse *= mouse* | you | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 6 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Mouse *= mouse* *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **take** *in a quote* | future | the Mouse *= mouse* | no denial | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent denial=Theme | | 8 | **have** *in a quote* | must | We | a trial | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Patient | | 9 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the Mouse *= mouse* | nothing | | | morning | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | | 10 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Mouse *= mouse* *not said here* | nothing *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/59/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/4/)