--- title: “I said pig,” replied Alice; “and I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “I said pig,” replied Alice; “and I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.” Who acts: Alice, you. 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/pg11/7/134/) [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/) / 134 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 134 “I said pig,” replied Alice; “and I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.” **Who acts:** Alice, you · **What happens:** say, reply, wish, not keep, appear, vanish · **To what, where:** pig, one · **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 (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:pg11:7:134 # text = “I said pig,” replied Alice; “and I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 7 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 16 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 18 appearing appear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 vanishing vanish VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 conj _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 obj _ _ 27 quite quite ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 giddy giddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Alice | pig | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Alice | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **not** **keep** *in a quote* | would | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **appear** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **vanish** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **make** *in a quote* | present | you | one | | | | giddy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product | 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 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/135/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/)