--- title: However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so ful… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:— Who acts: Alice, head, words. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Qua --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/100/) [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 X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/) / 100 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 100 However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:— **Who acts:** Alice, head, words · **What happens:** get up, begin, repeat, be, know, say · **To what, where:** school · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, head, words), 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:pg11:11:100 # text = However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:— 1 However however ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 repeat repeat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 Lobster Lobster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Quadrille Quadrille PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 obj _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 very very ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 queer queer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 advcl _ _ 39 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 — - PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | Alice | | | | | however *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **begin** | past | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **repeat** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | school | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** | past | Alice's head | | | | | of the Lobster Quadrille; full *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **know** | past | Alice | | | | | hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 7 | **come** | past | the words | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/101/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/)