--- title: Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I _was_ when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” Who acts: Alice. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Cat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/5/) [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/) / 5 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 5 Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I \_was\_ when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” **Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** reply, know, \_, get up, think, change · **To what, where:** sir, least, Alice · **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 (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:pg11:6:5 # text = Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I _was_ when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 rather rather ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 shyly shyly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 — - PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 sir sir NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 — - PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 obl _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 _ _ VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 28 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 26 punct _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 40 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 41 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux _ _ 42 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 ccomp _ _ 44 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl:unmarked _ _ 46 since since ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Alice | | | | | shyly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Alice | sir and present | | | | hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sir=Stimulus | | 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | least | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **\_** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get up** *in a quote* | past | Alice | | | | morning | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **change** *in a quote* | must · perfect · passive | | Alice | | | time | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/6/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/)