--- title: _You_ do it!—_That_ I won’t, then!—Bill’s to go down—Here, Bill! the… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: _You_ do it!—_That_ I won’t, then!—Bill’s to go down—Here, Bill! the master says you’re to go down the chimney!” Who acts: You, master. 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 eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/85/) [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/) / 85 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, sentence 85 \_You\_ do it!—\_That\_ I won’t, then!—Bill’s to go down—Here, Bill! the master says you’re to go down the chimney!” **Who acts:** You, master · **What happens:** do, go down, say, be · **To what, where:** crash, chimney · **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 (You, master), 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:pg11:5:85 # text = _You_ do it!—_That_ I won’t, then!—Bill’s to go down—Here, Bill! the master says you’re to go down the chimney!” 1 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 _ _ AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 — - PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 4 discourse _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ! ! PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 — - PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 — - PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’re be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 down down ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | | You | crash | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **go down** | to-infinitive | the master *not said here* | | | here | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the master | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **does** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go down** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the chimney | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient chimney=Extent | 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/86/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/5/)