--- title: They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distanc… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. Who acts: lives, Alice, fun, heart. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis C --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/75/) [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 IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/) / 75 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story, sentence 75 They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. **Who acts:** lives, Alice, fun, heart · **What happens:** not go, see, sit, come, hear, sigh · **To what, where:** Mock Turtle, little ledge, fun This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lives, Alice, fun, heart), 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:pg11:10:75 # text = They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 6 before before SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Mock Mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 17 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 ledge ledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 32 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 34 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 sighing sigh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 xcomp _ _ 39 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 40 if if SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | lives *= life* | | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | lives *= life* | the Mock Turtle | | | | in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turtle=Stimulus | | 3 | **sit** | gerund | lives *= life* *not said here* | | | a little ledge of rock | | sad *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ledge=Location | | 4 | **come** | past | lives *= life* | | | | | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hear** | could | Alice | fun | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sigh** | gerund | fun *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **break** | would | fun's heart | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/10/76/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX. 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