--- title: Alice was beginning very angrily, but the Hatter and the March Hare… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice was beginning very angrily, but the Hatter and the March Hare went “Sh! sh!” and the Dormouse sulkily remarked, “If you can’t be civil, you’d better finish the story for yourself.” Who acts: Alice, Hatter, Dormouse, you. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapte --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/119/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/) / 119 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 119 Alice was beginning very angrily, but the Hatter and the March Hare went “Sh! sh!” and the Dormouse sulkily remarked, “If you can’t be civil, you’d better finish the story for yourself.” **Who acts:** Alice, Hatter, Dormouse, you · **What happens:** begin, go, remark, not be, have, finish · **To what, where:** Sh sh, story · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, Hatter, Dormouse, 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:pg11:8:119 # text = Alice was beginning very angrily, but the Hatter and the March Hare went “Sh! sh!” and the Dormouse sulkily remarked, “If you can’t be civil, you’d better finish the story for yourself.” 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 beginning begin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 angrily angrily ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Hatter Hatter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 14 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Sh Sh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 18 sh sh NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Dormouse Dormouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 24 sulkily sulkily ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 remarked remark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 If if SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 30 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 civil civil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’d have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 37 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 xcomp _ _ 38 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past · progressive | Alice | | | | | angrily *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **go** | past | the Hatter and the March Hare | Sh sh | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | the Dormouse | | | | | sulkily *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | you | | | | | civil *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **finish** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the story | | | | for yourself | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality | 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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/120/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/)