--- title: “May it please your Majesty,” said Two, in a very humble tone, going… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: “May it please your Majesty,” said Two, in a very humble tone, going down on one knee as he spoke, “we were trying—” Who acts: tree, Two, Knave, we. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/44/) [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 VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/) / 44 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground, sentence 44 “May it please your Majesty,” said Two, in a very humble tone, going down on one knee as he spoke, “we were trying—” **Who acts:** tree, Two, Knave, we · **What happens:** please, say, go down, speak, try · **To what, where:** Majesty, humble tone, one knee · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, Two, Knave, we), 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:pg11:9:44 # text = “May it please your Majesty,” said Two, in a very humble tone, going down on one knee as he spoke, “we were trying—” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 May may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 humble humble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 19 down down ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 knee knee NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 31 — - PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ” " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **please** *in a quote* | may | tree | your Majesty | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus majesty=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Two | | | a humble tone | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go down** | gerund | Two *not said here* | | | one knee | | down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Knave | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **try** *in a quote* | past · progressive | we | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/45/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/9/)