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title: “Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,” the Hatter grumbled… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,” the Hatter grumbled: “you shouldn’t have put it in with the bread-knife.” Who acts: crumbs, Hatter, you. 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
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VII. A Mad Tea-Party, sentence 34

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“Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,” the Hatter grumbled: “you shouldn’t have put it in with the bread-knife.”

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**Who acts:** crumbs, Hatter, you · **What happens:** get in, grumble, not put in · **To what, where:** butter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (crumbs, Hatter, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg11:8:34
# text = “Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,” the Hatter grumbled: “you shouldn’t have put it in with the bread-knife.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	parataxis	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	9	advmod	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grumbled	grumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get in** *in a quote* | must · perfect | some crumbs |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **grumble** *speech: other* | past | the Hatter |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **put in** *in a quote* | should · perfect | you | butter |  |  |  | with the bread knife | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |

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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.

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**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.

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