--- title: “I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking about,” said Alice. — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking about,” said Alice. Who acts: Alice, you. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, 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/pg11/6/86/) [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/) / 86 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 86 “I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking about,” said Alice. **Who acts:** Alice, you · **What happens:** not have, be, talk about, say · **To what, where:** least idea · **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, you), 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:pg11:6:86 # text = “I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking about,” said Alice. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 obj _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’re be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present | Alice | the least idea | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | | 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | you | the least idea | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **talk about** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/87/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/6/)