--- title: “But then,” thought Alice, “shall I _never_ get any older than I am… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “But then,” thought Alice, “shall I _never_ get any older than I am now? Who acts: Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/41/) [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/) / 41 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 41 “But then,” thought Alice, “shall I \_never\_ get any older than I am now? **Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** think, not get · **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 (Alice), 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:pg11:5:41 # text = “But then,” thought Alice, “shall I _never_ get any older than I am now? 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 12 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 15 punct _ _ 15 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 16 any any ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 xcomp _ _ 18 than than SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 21 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice | | | | then | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | shall | Alice | | | | now | old *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/42/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/)