--- title: “I’ve seen hatters before,” she said to herself; “the March Hare wil… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “I’ve seen hatters before,” she said to herself; “the March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad—at least not so mad as it was in March.” Who acts: Hatter, March Hare, this, Hare. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/131/) [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/) / 131 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 131 “I’ve seen hatters before,” she said to herself; “the March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad—at least not so mad as it was in March.” **Who acts:** Hatter, March Hare, this, Hare · **What happens:** see, say, be, not rave · **To what, where:** hatters, Hatter, May · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Hatter, March Hare, this, Hare), 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:pg11:7:131 # text = “I’ve seen hatters before,” she said to herself; “the March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad—at least not so mad as it was in March.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’ve have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 5 hatters hatter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 before before ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 20 much much ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 23 advmod _ _ 23 interesting interesting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 26 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 advcl _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 33 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 aux _ _ 35 raving rave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 36 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 — - PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 42 obl _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 43 as as ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Hatter | hatters | | | | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hatter=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hatter | | Hatter | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the March Hare | | | | | interesting *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | May | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **rave** *speech: other* *in a quote* | future · progressive | Hare | | | | | mad, perhaps *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Hare | | | | | as March | tree rules | 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 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/130/) - next →: [sentence 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/132/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/)