--- title: She was a little nervous about it just at first, the two creatures g… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics description: She was a little nervous about it just at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on each side, and opened their eyes and mouths so _very_ wide, but she gained courage as she went on. Who acts: Alice, two creatures. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/91/) [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/) / 91 # Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 91 She was a little nervous about it just at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on each side, and opened their eyes and mouths so \_very\_ wide, but she gained courage as she went on. **Who acts:** Alice, two creatures · **What happens:** be, get, open, gain, go on · **To what, where:** eyes, courage 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, two creatures), 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:pg11:11:91 # text = She was a little nervous about it just at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on each side, and opened their eyes and mouths so _very_ wide, but she gained courage as she went on. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 conj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 very very ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 _ _ ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 gained gain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 41 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 advcl _ _ 45 on on ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Alice | | | | | about Rabbit; a little *obl:unmarked*; first, nervous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | past | the two creatures | | | | | close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **open** | past | | creatures's eyes and mouths | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | | 4 | **gain** | past | Alice | courage | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | | 5 | **go on** | past | Alice | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «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 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/92/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11/11/)