--- title: Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · full text with trees description: Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/) [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 VII. A Mad Tea-Party # Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll: the whole text, 154 sentences and 2383 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/1/) — There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/2/) — “Very uncomfortable for the Dormouse,” thought Alice; “only, as it’s asleep, I suppose it doesn’t mind.” - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/3/) — The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: “No room! - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/4/) — No room!” they cried out when they saw Alice coming. — checked by a teacher - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/5/) — “There’s \_plenty\_ of room!” said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/6/) — “Have some wine,” the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/7/) — Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/8/) — “I don’t see any wine,” she remarked. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/9/) — “There isn’t any,” said the March Hare. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/10/) — “Then it wasn’t very civil of you to offer it,” said Alice angrily. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/11/) — “It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being invited,” said the March Hare. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/12/) — “I didn’t know it was \_your\_ table,” said Alice; “it’s laid for a great many more than three.” - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/13/) — “Your hair wants cutting,” said the Hatter. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/14/) — He had been looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first speech. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/15/) — “You should learn not to make personal remarks,” Alice said with some severity; “it’s very rude.” - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/16/) — The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he \_said\_ was, “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/17/) — “Come, we shall have some fun now!” thought Alice. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/18/) — “I’m glad they’ve begun asking riddles.—I believe I can guess that,” she added aloud. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/19/) — “Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?” said the March Hare. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/20/) — “Exactly so,” said Alice. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/21/) — “Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/22/) — “I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least—at least I mean what I say—that’s the same thing, you know.” - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/23/) — “Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/24/) — “You might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!” - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/25/) — “You might just as well say,” added the March Hare, “that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!” - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/26/) — “You might just as well say,” added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, “that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!” - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/27/) — “It \_is\_ the same thing with you,” said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn’t much. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/28/) — The Hatter was the first to break the silence. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/29/) — “What day of the month is it?” he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, and holding it to his ear. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/30/) — Alice considered a little, and then said “The fourth.” - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/31/) — “Two days wrong!” sighed the Hatter. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/32/) — “I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works!” he added looking angrily at the March Hare. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/33/) — “It was the \_best\_ butter,” the March Hare meekly replied. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/34/) — “Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,” the Hatter grumbled: “you shouldn’t have put it in with the bread-knife.” - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/35/) — The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of nothing better to say than his first remark, “It was the \_best\_ butter, you know.” - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/36/) — Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/37/) — “What a funny watch!” she remarked. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/38/) — “It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!” - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/39/) — “Why should it?” muttered the Hatter. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/40/) — “Does \_your\_ watch tell you what year it is?” - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/41/) — “Of course not,” Alice replied very readily: “but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.” - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/42/) — “Which is just the case with \_mine\_,” said the Hatter. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/43/) — Alice felt dreadfully puzzled, The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/44/) — “I don’t quite understand you,” she said, as politely as she could. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/45/) — “The Dormouse is asleep again,” said the Hatter, and he poured a little hot tea upon its nose. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/46/) — The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without opening its eyes, “Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark myself.” - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/47/) — “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/48/) — “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “what’s the answer?” - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/49/) — “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/50/) — “Nor I,” said the March Hare. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/51/) — Alice sighed wearily. - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/52/) — “I think you might do something better with the time,” she said, “than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.” - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/53/) — “If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting \_it\_. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/54/) — It’s \_him\_.” - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/55/) — “I don’t know what you mean,” said Alice. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/56/) — “Of course you don’t!” the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/57/) — “I dare say you never even spoke to Time!” - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/58/) — “Perhaps not,” Alice cautiously replied: “but I know I have to beat time when I learn music.” - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/59/) — “Ah! that accounts for it,” said the Hatter. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/60/) — “He won’t stand beating. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/61/) — Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he’d do almost anything you liked with the clock. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/62/) — For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in the morning, just time to begin lessons: you’d only have to whisper a hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/63/) — Half-past one, time for dinner!” - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/64/) — (“I only wish it was,” the March Hare said to itself in a whisper.) - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/65/) — “That would be grand, certainly,” said Alice thoughtfully: “but then—I shouldn’t be hungry for it, you know.” - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/66/) — “Not at first, perhaps,” said the Hatter: “but you could keep it to half-past one as long as you liked.” - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/67/) — “Is that the way \_you\_ manage?” - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/68/) — Alice asked. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/69/) — The Hatter shook his head mournfully. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/70/) — “Not I!” he replied. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/71/) — “We quarrelled last March—just before \_he\_ went mad, you know—” (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) “—it was at the great concert given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/72/) — ‘Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/73/) — How I wonder what you’re at!’ - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/74/) — You know the song, perhaps?” - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/75/) — “I’ve heard something like it,” said Alice. - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/76/) — “It goes on, you know,” the Hatter continued, “in this way:— - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/77/) — ‘Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky. - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/78/) — Twinkle, twinkle—’” - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/79/) — Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep “\_Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle\_—” and went on so long that they had to pinch it to make it stop. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/80/) — “Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse,” said the Hatter, “when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, ‘He’s murdering the time! - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/81/) — Off with his head!’” - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/82/) — “How dreadfully savage!” exclaimed Alice. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/83/) — “And ever since that,” the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, “he won’t do a thing I ask! - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/84/) — It’s always six o’clock now.” - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/85/) — A bright idea came into Alice’s head. - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/86/) — “Is that the reason so many tea-things are put out here?” she asked. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/87/) — “Yes, that’s it,” said the Hatter with a sigh: “it’s always tea-time, and we’ve no time to wash the things between whiles.” - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/88/) — “Then you keep moving round, I suppose?” said Alice. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/89/) — “Exactly so,” said the Hatter: “as the things get used up.” - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/90/) — “But what happens when you come to the beginning again?” - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/91/) — Alice ventured to ask. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/92/) — “Suppose we change the subject,” the March Hare interrupted, yawning. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/93/) — “I’m getting tired of this. - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/94/) — I vote the young lady tells us a story.” - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/95/) — “I’m afraid I don’t know one,” said Alice, rather alarmed at the proposal. - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/96/) — “Then the Dormouse shall!” they both cried. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/97/) — “Wake up, Dormouse!” - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/98/) — And they pinched it on both sides at once. - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/99/) — The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/100/) — “I wasn’t asleep,” he said in a hoarse, feeble voice: “I heard every word you fellows were saying.” **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/page/2/) - ← previous: [Chapter VI. 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