--- title: “I know _something_ interesting is sure to happen,” she said to hers… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “I know _something_ interesting is sure to happen,” she said to herself, “whenever I eat or drink anything; so I’ll just see what this bottle does. Who acts: label, something, bottle. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/26/) [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 IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Litt…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/) / 26 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 26 “I know \_something\_ interesting is sure to happen,” she said to herself, “whenever I eat or drink anything; so I’ll just see what this bottle does. **Who acts:** label, something, bottle · **What happens:** know, be, happen, say, eat, drink · **To what, where:** label, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (label, something, bottle), 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:pg11:5:26 # text = “I know _something_ interesting is sure to happen,” she said to herself, “whenever I eat or drink anything; so I’ll just see what this bottle does. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 4 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ _ 7 interesting interesting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 25 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 just just ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 obj _ _ 33 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | label | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | something | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **happen** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | something *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | label | | label | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | label | | | | | whenever *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **drink** *in a quote* | present | label *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | | 7 | **see** *in a quote* | future | label | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 8 | **do** *in a quote* | present | this bottle | | | | | | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/27/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. 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