--- title: “In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law, And argued each… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.” Who acts: father, muscular strength, Has. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice f --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/41/) [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 V. Advice from a Caterpillar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/) / 41 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 41 “In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.” **Who acts:** father, muscular strength, Has · **What happens:** say, take, argue, give, last · **To what, where:** youth, case, jaw, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, muscular strength, Has), 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:pg11:6:41 # text = “In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 And and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 argued argue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 And and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 muscular muscular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 Has Has PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 lasted last VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | old's father | | | my youth | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in youth=Manner | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | past | old's father *= father* | | | | | to the law *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to law=Result | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* *in a quote* | past | old's father *= father* *not said here* | each case | | | | with my wife | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent case=Topic with wife=Co-Agent | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | past | the muscular strength | | my jaw | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to jaw=Recipient | | 5 | **last** *in a quote* | past | Has | the rest of my life | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme rest=Value | 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/pg11/6/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/42/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. 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