--- title: Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered “Come on!” an… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered “Come on!” and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:— Who acts: Alice, Gryphon, breeze. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/145/) [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/) / 145 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 145 Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered “Come on!” and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:— **Who acts:** Alice, Gryphon, breeze · **What happens:** pant, run, answer, come on, come, carry · **To what, where:** faster, breeze · **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, Gryphon, breeze), 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:pg11:11:145 # text = Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered “Come on!” and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:— 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 panted pant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Gryphon Gryphon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 14 on on ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ” " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 25 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 26 faintly faintly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 melancholy melancholy NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 — - PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pant** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **run** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | the Gryphon | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **come on** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **run** | past | Alice *not said here* | the faster | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fast=Trajectory | | 6 | **come** | past | Alice *not said here* | | | | | faintly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **carry** | participle | Alice *not said here* | | | the breeze and the melancholy words | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **follow** | past | the breeze and the melancholy words | breeze | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/144/) - next →: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/146/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/)