--- title: Now _I_ growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Now _I_ growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, 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/pg11/7/117/) [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 VI. Pig and Pepper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/) / 117 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 117 Now \_I\_ growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** growl, be, wag · **To what, where:** tail This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg11:7:117 # text = Now _I_ growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 _ _ AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 growl growl VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 wag wag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 18 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **growl** | | I | | | | now | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **be** | present | I | | | | | pleased *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wag** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my tail | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 4 | **be** | present | I | | | | | angry *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/116/) - next →: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/118/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/)