--- title: “If I don’t take this child away with me,” thought Alice, “they’re s… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “If I don’t take this child away with me,” thought Alice, “they’re sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn’t it be murder to leave it behind?” Who acts: Alice, things, child. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/77/) [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/) / 77 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper, sentence 77 “If I don’t take this child away with me,” thought Alice, “they’re sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn’t it be murder to leave it behind?” **Who acts:** Alice, things, child · **What happens:** not take away, think, 're, kill, n't, be · **To what, where:** child, murder · **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, things, child), 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:pg11:7:77 # text = “If I don’t take this child away with me,” thought Alice, “they’re sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn’t it be murder to leave it behind?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 14 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’re 're VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 n’t n't VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 murder murder NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 behind behind ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **take away** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | Alice | this child | | | | with Alice; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Alice | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **'re** *in a quote* | past | things *= thing* | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* | child | | | day | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **n't** *in a quote* | would | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | child | murder | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **leave** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | murder | | | | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/7/78/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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