--- title: “You might just as well say,” added the March Hare, “that ‘I like wh… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “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’!” Who acts: You, March Hare, that. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/25/) [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/) / 25 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 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’!” **Who acts:** You, March Hare, that · **What happens:** say, add, like, get, be · **To what, where:** same thing · **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 (You, March Hare, that), 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:pg11:8:25 # text = “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’!” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 7 cc _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 fixed _ _ 7 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 nsubj _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 22 obj _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 obj _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ” " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | might | You | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **add** *speech: express* | past | the March Hare | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **like** *in a quote* | present | the March Hare *= hare* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | present | the March Hare *= hare* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the same thing | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **get** *in a quote* | present | the March Hare *= hare* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **like** *in a quote* | present | the March Hare *= hare* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/26/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/)