--- title: “You might just as well say,” added the Dormouse, who seemed to be t… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “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’!” Who acts: You, Dormouse, March Hare, that. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/26/) [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/) / 26 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 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’!” **Who acts:** You, Dormouse, March Hare, that, three · **What happens:** say, add, seem, talk, breathe, sleep · **To what, where:** sleep, 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, Dormouse, 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:pg11:8:26 # text = “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’!” 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 12 det _ _ 12 Dormouse Dormouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux _ _ 18 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 xcomp _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 23 “ " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 25 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 28 when when SCONJ WRB _ 30 mark _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 40 when when SCONJ WRB _ 42 mark _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ! ! PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 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: assert* | past | the Dormouse | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **seem** | past | the Dormouse | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **talk** | to-infinitive · progressive | the Dormouse *not said here* | | | three's sleep | | | tree rules | | 5 | **breathe** *in a quote* | present | the March Hare *= hare* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sleep** *in a quote* | present | the March Hare *= hare* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the same thing | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **sleep** *in a quote* | present | the March Hare *= hare* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **breathe** *in a quote* | present | the March Hare *= hare* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **sleep** | | three | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/27/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/8/)