--- title: Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all com… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:— Who acts: Alice, verse. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/115/) [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/) / 115 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 115 Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:— **Who acts:** Alice, verse · **What happens:** not dare, not disobey, feel, come, go on · **To what, where:** trembling voice 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, verse), 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:pg11:11:115 # text = Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:— 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 dare dare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 disobey disobey VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 though though SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 all all ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 16 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 on on ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 trembling trembling NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 — - PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **dare** | past · do-support | Alice | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **disobey** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **feel** | past | Alice | | | | | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | would | verse | | | | | all, wrong *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go on** | past | Alice | | | a trembling voice | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | 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 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/116/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/)